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Inspired by with Imran Perretta

@imranperretta is a London-based artist working in film, sound, and poetry, whose work explores British Muslim diasporic life and marginality.

For Contxt he chose an artwork, book, film and piece of music that inspire him.

Untitled by David Hammons from 2014 is from a series of weathered tarps draped over hidden paintings - an abstract work created from discarded street materials.

I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning by @keirangoddard is a lyrical novel told from the alternating perspectives of five friends who grew up on the same council estate.

Le Rayon Vert / The Green Ray directed by Éric Rohmer in 1986, follows a lonely Parisian woman drifts through a bleak summer holiday searching for connection.

Pyroclasts by @sunnofficial is an album of four slow, meditative drone pieces, recorded as early-morning improvisation sessions, more contemplative than the band’s signature doom.

Imran Perretta’s debut feature film ISH is now available to stream on @britishfilminstitute platform bfiplayer

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Inspired by with Seana Gavin

@seanagavin is a London-based British artist whose psychedelic collages mix vintage photographs into dreamlike scenes, also known for her photographic work of underground rave culture.

For Contxt, she chose an artwork, book, film and piece of music that inspires her.

The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch is a triptych tracing humanity from Eden through a hedonistic, fantastical middle panel to a nightmarish Hell, warning of the cost of indulgence.

Kafka on the Shore by Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami is a story about fate, memory, and identity based around a runaway teenager and an elderly man who can talk to cats.

After Hours, directed by Martin Scorsese in 1985, follows a mild-mannered New York office worker is stranded in SoHo overnight, as his date gone wrong spirals into a paranoid comedy.

Channel Orange released by Frank Ocean in 2012, is a genre-blurring R&B debut of lush, confessional songs reflecting sun-soaked Los Angeles.

Seana Gavin’s work is on show until February in The 90s: Art and Fashion at @tate Britain and Living Labyrinths: Art and Fungi @rammuseum

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Inspired by with Adam Pendleton

@pendleton.adam is a conceptual artist whose “Black Dada” work uses abstraction, language, and layered imagery to explore Blackness, history, and the avant-garde

For Contxt he chose an artwork, film, book and piece of music that inspires him.

Autumn Rhythm: Number 30 by Jackson Pollock is a monumental drip painting of black, white, and brown enamel that captures energy and motion through layered poured paint which hangs in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Paradise by Toni Morrison is a novel about an all-Black Oklahoma town whose residents violently turn on a nearby house of women, examining exclusion, purity, and community.

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, directed by Michel Gondry, is a quirky scifi romantic film about a couple undergo a procedure to erase memories of each other and fall back in love.

Promises by Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders and the London Symphony Orchestra, is a single 46-minute suite blending ambient electronica, spiritual jazz and lush strings.

Adam Pendleton’s solo exhibition Some Wild Kind of Language is on show @stedelijkmuseum in Amsterdam until January 17.

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Inspired by with Prem Sahib

@premsahib is a British of Indian and Polish heritage known for minimalist sculptures, installations, and performances that explore queer histories and architecture.

For Contxt, he chose an artwork, book, film and piece of music that inspire him,

Waterfall (2015–16), Robert Gober features a man’s vest mounted on the wall with a small opening in the back that reveals a tiny lit diorama of a waterfall.

Ban en Banlieue by Bhanu Kapil is a novel whose narrative circles a fictional girl who lies down to die in a 1979 London race riot, writing in fragments, notes, and performance scores.

Marlon Riggs’ Tongues Untied is a landmark documentary-essay from 1989 on Black gay identity in America, mixing poetry, testimony, and direct address.

“Let’s Not Chat About Despair” by Diamanda Galás is from the album You Must Be Certain of the Devil (1988), a searing, industrial-tinged indictment of government indifference to AIDS.

Prem Sahib’s survey exhibition Chamber opens at the @delawarr on October 10.

Image: Prem Sahib, Sleepwalker (2023), steel, plywood, MDF, paint, mirror, two-way mirror, LED lights, dimmer, acrylic, baby-grows, plastic hangers

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Inspired by with Jenkin van Zyl

@JenkinvanZyl is a British artist who creates immersive installations with moving image and sculpture that sit between surveillance and spectacle.

For Contxt, they chose an artwork, book, film and piece of music that inspires them.

Admiring La Argentina was a work by the septuagenarian butoh pioneer’s by Kazuo Ohno performed in 1977 which is a ghostly reimaging of the memory of a flamenco dancer.

The Bed Trick by Izabella Scott is a novelistic account of the Gayle Newland “rape by deception” trial, using a catfishing case to unpick centuries of bed-trick myths in culture and law.

The 1975 feature film The Maids based on Genet’s claustrophobic play stars Glenda Jackson and Susannah York as two sisters role-playing servitude and murder.

P.J. Harvey’s second album Rid of Me, released in1993 and produced by Steve Albini, veers between feral and whisper, desire and control.

Van Zyl’s exhibition Enclosure is on view @SomersetHouse in London until November 29.

Images: Jenkin van Zyl, Enclosure, 2026

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Inspired by… with Alexandra Bachzetsis

@alexandra.bachzetsis is a Swiss-Greek choreographer and artist working with dance and performance exploring ideas around the body, pop culture, identity and expression.

For In Contxt, she chose a book, film, piece of music and artwork that inspires her.

Let’s Take Back Our Space: ‚Female‘ and ‚Male‘ Body Language as a Result of Patriarchal Structures by Mariam Wex is a groundbreaking illustrated artist book created in 1979 that took 5,000 images of people’s postures and gestures to demonstrate how humans present themselves – and their gender.

Zabriskie Point Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni is the Italian director’s wild, sexy take on counterculture America. Released in 1970, with a Pink Floyd soundtrack, this is a move about rebellion, resistance and redefining love.

The N-—r Series by Julius Eastman are three iconic piano compositions created by American composer Julius Eastman in 1979 that intentionally provoke, express ideas around Blackness and identity in the context for classical minimalism.

Cut Piece by Yoko Ono, enacted in 1964: the artist invited audience members to cut her clothing off piece by piece while she remained still and seated on stage, forcing the viewer to rethink their ideas around power, desire and action.

Alexandra Bachzetsis is currently working on a new piece, entitled To be real, which is part 2 of the work Rush(es), which she toured in 2025 and 2026. It will premiere on December 4 @Shedhalle in Zurich.

Image: Alexandra Bachzetsis, Rush(es), 2025. Photo: Estelle Hanania, courtesy of EDIZIONI C/O BARDI.

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Inspired by with Joanna Piotrowska

Joanna Piotrowska @janka_piotrowska is a London-based Polish artist best known for photographic, performance and film work examining the human condition and gesture using archives including self-defence manuals and psychotherapy guides.

For Contxt she chose an artwork book film and piece of music that informs her work.

Taína H. Cruz’s If and When They Come She’ll Be Ready is a graffiti-inspired site specific wall drawing created in 2026 for the Whitney Biennial.

Sophie Calle’s True Stories pairs short stories with photographs, blurring the line between fiction and reality.

Motivated by the director Carla Simón’s own family, Alcarràs (2022) follows a Catalan peach-farming family’s last summer on land they’re about to lose.

No I Won’t is by Evans Pyramid, the alter ego of Andre Evons, a seasoned performer and session player in the 1970s known for his disco and boogie sound.

Piotrowska has a solo exhibition opening @phillidareid October 8.

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Inspired by Philipp Timischl

Philipp Timischl @philippphilipp is a Paris-based Austrian artist working with video, sculpture, painting and photography, often combined with text, that touch on ideas around class, queerness and power.

For Contxt, he chose an artwork, book, film and piece of music that inspires him
Isa Genzken’s sculpture Rose III created in 2007 has been the image on TImischl phone background since his iPhone 7 in 2016.

Timischl owes giving up smoking to Allen Carr’s book Easy Ways to Stop Smoking, which has sold millions of copies since its publication in 1985.

NAZA by Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, is an investigative documentary examining the civilian casualties of Israel’s military operations in Gaza.

DJ Billybool aka Thaiboy Digital, is a Thai rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer, and fashion designer. His trance mix ‘The Effect Mix’ is available on soundcloud.

Timischl’s upcoming monograph, published by Road House, will be release in October 2026.

Image: (Broken Painting), 2024, Mixed media on canvas, LED Panels, video 1’23’’

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Inspired by with Hew Locke

@hewdjlocke is a renowned Guyanese-British artist working with sculpture, installation, painting and photography to create work about topics including. power, colonialism and

For Contxt he chose an artwork, book, film and song that inspires him

Marc Chagall’s 1911 painting ‘I and the Village’ on show @themuseumofmodernart depicts memories of his childhood in a peasant village near Vitebsk.

Miguel Street by V.S. Naipaul published in 1959, is a collection of linked short stories set in wartime Trinidad and Tobago.

‘Return of the One Armed Swordsman’ directed by Chang Cheh in 1969, as it reminded him of his youth watching Hong Kong Kung Fu films at the wooden Astor Cinema in Georgetown.

‘The Gold in Africa’ by Growling Tiger is a 1936 calypso song that covers Mussolini’s invasion of Abyssinia (Ethiopia) and Emperor Haile Selassie’s spirited defense of the country before the League of Nations.
 Hew Locke’s exhibition ‘The Wanderers’ is on show at PPOW Gallery until October 24. @ppowgallery

Image: Hew Locke, Foreign Exchange 3, 2026, plywood, tin, zinc, brass, copper alloys, jesmonite, plastic, synthetic fabric, acrylic paint, resin, fiberglass, enamel paint, acrylic medium

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Inspired by with Aramis Navarro

@aramis.navarro is a Swiss artist working with ideas around belief, mysticism, algorithms and neural networks.

For Contxt, he chose an artwork, book, film and piece of music that inspires him.

Las Meninas (1656) is a portrait of the Spanish royal court by Diego Velázquez, known for its unusual take on perspective, mirrors, and the act of painting.

Erik Davis’s book Techgnosis from 1998, examines hthe relationship between the occult and spiritual to technology and media throughout history.

Spike Jonze’s 2013 film Her is a melancholic sci-fi film about a man who falls in love with an intelligent operating system.

truisms 4 dummies is a 2023 track by Headache mixing ambient electronic and artificial voice poetry.

Navarro’s work is on show until Nov 18 @doppelganger.gallery in St Gallen.

Image: Aramis Navarro Ratking, 2025. Courtesy of the artist. Photo E.

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Inspired by with Olivia Erlanger

@oliviaerlanger is a New York based artist who explores American dream and delusions through sculpture, writing and filmmaking

For Contxt, she chose an artwork, book, film and piece of music that inspires her.

Dominique Gonzales Foerster transformed a 3,700 square foot gallery into a landscape for chronotopes & dioramas, containing books by writers like Ballard, Bolaño.

The Changeling by Joy Williams is a 1976 dark fantasy novel about a grieving mother who flees to a chaotic island with a child she believes may be a supernatural being.

Directed when she was 18, Chantal Akerman’s Saute Ma Ville is a story about rebellion against domesticity.
O Superman was the a minimalist and electronic debut single by Laurie Anderson from 1981.

Erlanger will be included in the group exhibition Her October 3 and runs until November 22 @salzburgerkunstverein

Image: Olivia Erlanger, Fan Fiction, 2024. Courtesy of the artist.

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In contxt with Chloe Wise

@chloewise is a New York-based Canadian artist who creates figurative paintings, satirical films and installations drawing from pop culture and the transcendent images within art history.

For Contxt, she chose an artwork, film, book and piece of music that inspires her.

Cristo Velato was created by the Neapolitan sculptor Giuseppe Sanmartino in 1753 for the Sansevero Chapel, depicting a marble Christ beneath a death shroud on bed.

Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov was published in 1961, after the success of Lolita. It is structured as a 999-line poem by the fictional writer John Shade.

The 1975 feature film Love and Death directed and starring Woody Allen is a satire on era of great Russian literature and co-stars Diane Keaton.

Merriweather Post Pavillion is the eighth album by American band Animal Collective, release on Domino and infused with lush electronic sounds and reverb.

Following a major solo show at „Kulturstiftung Basel“ „H. Geiger in Basel“, @chloewise is working on a forthcoming solo show at Massimo di Carlo in Milan in March 2027.

@kbhgeiger @anmlcollective
@massimodecarlogallery
Image: A stone is frozen music (2025), oil on linen. Photo: Charles Roussel

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