Briefly Witnessing the Impossible. A Conversation with Megan Mi-Ai Lee
To what extent are we willing to be fooled? Megan Mi-Ai Lee’s practice probes the affective pull that keeps us…
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A Painting That Says No . Olivia van Kuiken
Olivia van Kuiken once said: “A painting is incapable of telling time. It’s a static image.”[1] That line keeps tolling…
The Space Between. Adam Patrick Grant
Did it matter then, she asked herself, walking toward Bond Street, did it matter that she must inevitably cease completely?…
"to ignite our skin" / SculptureCenter, New York
Much recent critical theory has been concerned with the following proposition: that although the triumph of reason claims to have…
Skin, Cloth, Paper, Snow. A Conversation with Ruoru Mou
Ruoru Mou’s practice folds together industry, ownership, and inheritance. Working across sculpture and installation, she manipulates factory debris and fragments…
On Language and Kitsch. Tasneem Sarkez
It feels appropriate to approach Tasneem Sarkez’s work through the seed of language. The word, as a manifold concept, laces…
Lutz Bacher, “Burning the Days “ / Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo
How do you put a finger on Lutz Bacher? Contemplating this, I walked toward Astrup Fearnley through a pocket of…
Zora Sicher, Geography
“Intimacy builds worlds; it creates spaces and usurps places meant for other kinds of relation,” wrote the late theorist Lauren…
Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme, “Prisoners of Love: Until the Sun of Freedom” / Nottingham Contemporary
On Monday, October 13, 2025, just a few days after I visited Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme’s multimedia installation Prisoners…
How To Play It. A Conversation with alfatih
alfatih doesn’t really do interviews. So, our conversation happened as it could. Talking to alfatih these days means organizing a…
Eleanor Antin, “A Retrospective” Mudam, Luxembourg
Eleanor Antin’s Blood of a Poet Box (1965–68) assembles, quite literally, the blood of a hundred poets: samples on glass…
SOFT-POWER-MANIA. A Conversation with Tommy Xie
To speak of vulnerability as soft power is to encounter its double. Hidden agency, bare desire, and quiet possession take…