Thoughts of Elsewhere
“The successful negotiation of holes is dependent on maintaining a healthy respect for what cannot be seen.” – Pope. L…
“The successful negotiation of holes is dependent on maintaining a healthy respect for what cannot be seen.” – Pope. L…
A baby and a great fear of meeting my past stopped me from returning to London for almost seven years.…
The CAPC – Musée d’art Contemporain is contained in a cavernous converted nineteenth-century warehouse in Bordeaux. It is a fitting…
Perhaps appropriately for an interview on a cold, dark, January evening, the first question I ask Gray Wielebinski is one…
Croatian-born Dora Budor’s inaugural institutional exhibition in the UK, titled “Again,” takes place at Nottingham Contemporary, one of many organizations…
A blood-red carpet, ghostly body parts infused with lurid blues and pastel pinks that are weighted to heavy wooden furniture,…
Originally published in Aperto ’93: Emergency/Emergenza, Giancarlo Politi Editore, 1993. The European scene of late has been dominated by the…
In 1993, the world was not so much different than today. In the Balkans people were killing each other…
Aperto ’93 set the artistic agenda for the 1990s. It is widely considered to have been one of the best…
Art history lectures frequently begin with an image of the Venus of Willendorf. The ancient fertility sculpture, with its exaggerated…
Visibility is a double-edged sword or, as French philosopher Michel Foucault once categorized it, “a trap.”1 The term’s duality is…
To mark their twentieth anniversary, the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo presents “Our Ecology: Toward a Planetary Living,” co-curated by…
Gina Fischli’s work revels in unattractive feelings that commercial and art institutions consider invalid or just too small to matter:…
Grace Wales Bonner: I just came back from Germany; I was there with Adidas. The show in Paris was really…
At Oude Kerk in Amsterdam, songs by Meredith Monk lure viewers into the church nave. Large LED screens, suspended from…
I spent a couple of weeks living with Diane Severin Nguyen in an Airbnb in Shanghai. She mostly took me…