ORDINARY MIRACLES. A Conversation with Rene Matić
One of the earliest works by Rene Matić is a video that documents their back torso being inscribed with the…
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Tongue River Theory. davi de jesus do nascimento
davi makes me believe I no longer know how to write. When I read his recent writings[1] and talked to…
Tobias Pils “Shh” mumok / Vienna
Tobias Pils’s ambitious exhibition “Shh” at mumok, Vienna, spans three spaces and looks back at a decade of his practice,…
Mexico City: El Desagüe
I Sometimes making something leads to nothing. In 1997, Francis Alÿs spent nine hours pushing a block of ice through…
A review within a play. Play by Josiane M.H. Pozi and Emily Pozi
“UNITED KINGDOM LONDON. PORTRAIT O.A.Y.G.” by Josiane M.H. Pozi at Carlos/ Ishikawa captures scenes of personal artifact, of ordered clutter;…
Afterglow. Siyi Li
Artist Siyi Li prefers to go by only his first name in this text. “Like a pop star,” he muses.…
Accumulation. Ruofan Chen
In October 2023, Ruofan Chen spent a cold October north of the arctic circle at a residency in Fleinvær, a…
Cyprien Gaillard, “Wassermusik” / Haus der Kunst, Munich
Cyprien Gaillard is no studio artist. He wanders and finds things. In Munich, he explored the Haus der Kunst, sometimes…
Hysteric Literature. A Conversation with Olivia Kan-Sperling
The questions of literary modernism have always been deeply entwined with those of psychoanalysis: both are concerned with the dissolution…
Gerhard Richter / Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris
In 2017, Gerhard Richter fulfilled his collectors’ deepest, darkest dream: he announced he was done with painting. That same year,…
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…
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…