Too Old to Die Young
In her 1975 poem “Liebestod,” Gwen Head writes of a girl on a beach who sunbathes with a glittering gun…
#327 Sep–Oct 2019
Elysia Crampton: Beyond the horizon of coloniality
“We come from a heavily colonized country where they adopted Christianity. I saw the way [my grandmother] navigated her relationship…
Sharing space: Meriem Bennani on Teleportation, Babycouple Adults, and Postcolonial Morocco
Combining an impressive range of imagery drawn from YouTube, reality television, music videos, cartoons, documentary footage, and self-crafted animations, the…
The Machinery of Identity: Candice Breitz
Candice Breitz says she hasn’t slept all week. Yet, as I visit the artist in her studio in a long-gentrified…
When Body Horror Meets Fairy Tale: The Films of Marianna Simnett
In her legendary 1991 essay “The Cyborg Manifesto,” Donna Haraway described a world that many of us then dismissed as…
Adjacency: Luke Willis Thompson’s Poethics of Care
We stand in solidarity with all black communities around the world. In the past years, Flash Art has been inviting various artists, thinkers and writers to rewrite or rethink the idea of blackness. Our “Editors Choice” does not aim to dictate an exhaustive or comprehensive list of writings but is an act of solidarity, which aims to contribute to the distribution of art thinking on blackness, and a way in which we can support the movement. Good reading!
Landlord Colors: On Art, Economy, and Materiality Cranbrook Museum / Detroit
“Landlord Colors” stages a comparative history of the art of sociopolitical upheaval, bringing together work from five far-flung locales during…
Gelitin & Liam Gillick Kunsthalle Wien
Like anything else, “Stinking Dawn” affects the way you see things as much as it reflects them, but it is…
A New Aesthetics of Conviviality
Intensifying racisms and growing ethno-nationalisms require political answers. We know what has to happen: negotiations, treaties, and policies will have…
Whitney Biennial 2019 Whitney Museum of American Art / New York
The Whitney Biennial has historically been an occasion for artistic protest and institutional critique, and this year’s iteration proved to…
Wong Ping Camden Arts Centre / London
Wong Ping’s practice revolves around three fundamental aspects — filmmaking, sculpture, and storytelling. His animated films are the result of…
Inner Ear Vision: Sound as Medium Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts / Omaha
“Inner Ear Vision: Sound as Medium” at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts offers a welcome cross section of innovative…
HOMELAND Ordet / Milan
If there is a narrative that dominates degenerate populist and sovereign rhetoric, it is that of the border. Whether based…
Libita Clayton Spike Island / Bristol
To access Libita Clayton’s immersive sound installation Quantum Ghost (2019), one must enter the space through a cave mouth leading…
Tawan Wattuya Hatch Art Project / Singapore
In these ominous images we see the dark vision of humanity that has characterized Wattuya’s work for much of his…
Lis Rhodes Nottingham Contemporary / UK
This summer, all four galleries at Nottingham Contemporary are dedicated to the largest survey exhibition of Lis Rhodes to date…