We are tragic sleepers
“We are tragic sleepers,” texts Miciah sometime in October. He and I happen to be birthday twins, as were our…
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Isa Genzken: Tactical Slippage
Although a single word could never encapsulate the boundless range of Isa Genzken’s artistic production, one that comes close is…
“Chrysalis: The Butterfly Dream” Centre d’Art Contemporain / Genève
The risk of partial reception or the flattening of content in thematic, muscular exhibitions like the one presented by the…
Roberto Cuoghi Fridericianum / Kassel
The first thing visitors hear upon entering the foyer of Fridericianum is a swelling, deeply unsettling noise. Cascade-like, akin to…
June Crespo “They Saw their House Turn Into Fields” Museo CA2M / Madrid
Metal artifacts are arranged neatly against the walls: the spectator is surrounded. From this description, you’d be forgiven for thinking…
LuYang “Vibratory Field” Kunsthalle Basel
“What am I? Which part of this body is me?” asks an animated figure in The Great Adventure of Material…
Isabelle Albuquerque: The Patron Saint of Plurality
I’m a little lost without you / That could be an understatement / Now I hope that I have paid…
Mimosa Echard: Escape More, See Less
With great homogeneity of purpose, French artist Mimosa Echard’s work unfolds from one exhibition to the next in an ongoing…
Carolyn Lazard “Long Take” Nottingham Contemporary
How do we experience an artwork? For most readers, and for me, our eyes receive and process it, often in…
Bri Williams: Defamiliarizing Myths
Bri Williams’s work drifts between feeling and intellect, eroding the distinction between the two into an embodied knowing and experience…
K.R.M. Mooney: Lastings
I relish that no one knows the time one may put into solitude. Yours, mine, alone. One’s interior life is…
Alfatih “Day in the Life” Swiss Institute / New York
In Alfatih’s exhibition “Day in the Life” at the Swiss Institute, the viewer becomes a new kind of observer: one…
Liminal Systems of Representation. A Conversation with Jordan Strafer
Over the past ten years, Jordan Strafer has developed a body of work that interrogates dysfunction within American society. Through…
Aria Dean: There, There; There’s No “There” There
In my early twenties I worked as a gallery attendant at Dia:Beacon, where I was tasked with maintaining the precise…
Storytelling the History. A Conversation with Cole Lu
Cole Lu has home on his mind when I call at the end of January. The Brooklyn-based artist is planning…
Gordon Matta-Clark & Pope.L “Impossible Failures” 52 Walker / New York
The concept of impossibility changes over time, reflecting larger shifts in consciousness and zeitgeist. What is probable becomes common and…