Sidsel Meineche Hansen Chisenhale gallery / London
“Welcome to End-Used City” continues Sidsel Meineche Hansen’s ongoing consideration of techno-capitalism’s stranglehold on biopolitics. The focus here is the…
#328 Nov 2019–Jan 2020
Apertures of Queer Prophecy. Alex Baczyński-Jenkins’s Such Feeling
At the center of Alex Baczyński-Jenkins’s Until a thousand roses bloom (with Warsaw in the background) (2018) are two plots…
When You Mix Something, It’s Good to Know Your Ingredients: Modes of Addressing and Economies of Attention in the Visual and Performing Arts
The event-oriented neo-avant-gardes of the 1950s and ’60s were very much driven by an oppositional stance to the conventions of…
Image, performance, protest
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!
Vincent Fecteau CCA Wattis Institute / San Francisco
In Vincent Fecteau’s most recent solo exhibition at the CCA Wattis Institute — his first show in San Francisco, his…
Luke Ching Chin Wai | South Ho Siu Nam Blindingspot / Hong Kong
The past eight months of political protest have left the administration of Hong Kong speechless. In failing to acknowledge its…
FALSE SPACES TOKAS Project / Tokyo
For its second edition, TOKAS Project invited Hong Kong Arts Centre and independent curator Yuk-Yiu Ip to present a media…
Liz Magor Marcelle Alix / Paris
Halfway into Canadian sculptor Liz Magor’s exhibition at Marcelle Alix, I brazenly swung myself down on a plinth only millimeters…
Marguerite Humeau CLEARING /Brussels
Maguerite Humeau’s earlier exhibitions at the Palais de Tokyo and Nottingham Contemporary (2016–17) focused on what allowed the human species…
Elaine Cameron-Weir JTT / New York
In Elaine Cameron-Weir’s “strings that show the wind,” three sets of paired sculptures stand, as if halted mid-procession, atop an…
Emily Mae Smith Galerie Perrotin / Tokyo
In past interviews, Emily Mae Smith has described her current style and aesthetic as a result of her own experiences…