New art scales : rethinking local in a global art world

New Arts Scales writes the art of the 21^st century with the tools and ambition of a timeless art history book. Located in Istanbul, a city at the crossroads between East and West, The Pill, founded by Suela Cennet in 2016, is both a gallery and a place for resistance. How to explore such crucial issues as violence, migration, the relationship to the body, gender and patriarchy in a country with an increasingly uncertain political context ? Faced with a highly globalized art system, how to rethink the relationship between center and margins, between global and local ? The 16 artists represented by The Pill and featured in this book are all born at the cusp of the 21^st century. Together, they embody this new generation determined to address these questions and shake up the art world.