Dominique White: Of Seas and Shoals
For Dominique White, the sea is “a huge body, a living and breathing entity, that we don’t really understand.”1 We…
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Tourmaline: Black-American Mytho-Cinematic Universe
The production of the black subject is so tied to the production of photography that there is no blackness that…
God's Fertile Excrement: Tita Cicognani
Let’s dive in with “Infinite Caca” — my first encounter with Tita Cicognani’s deliriously polymorphous practice. The centerpiece of the…
Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme: The Song of the Land is Calling
The day-to-day reality in occupied Palestine is largely inaccessible to an international audience. It is challenging to form a deep,…
Tosh Basco: Form and Feeling
I’m on the phone with artist Tosh Basco, explaining how hard it is to write about her work. “Well, I’ve…
Wolfgang Tillmans: Multitudinal Pictures
Chance is banal. Immaterial. While it just so happened that photographer Wolfgang Tillmans was a teenager in the mid-sized West…
Even My Subconscious Is Self-Conscious: Okay Kaya
The preternaturally gifted artist, musician, model and actress Kaya Wilkins — known in the creative industry as Okay Kaya —…
A Whirlwind of Connections. A Conversation with Lafawndah
Lafawndah, sometimes known as Yasmine Dubois, is intent on holding space for growth in her music, traversing genres, and uncovering…
Plants in a Garden, Tended by Machines. A Conversation with Nora N. Khan
Andrea Bellini: As a curator and writer, you have stood out in recent years for your focus on both the…
Nightlife, Glamour, Art. DeSe Escobar
Between 2021 and 2022 I kept running into DeSe Escobar. It was always during some art event, just before the…
In the Mood for Muck. A Conversation with Geo Wyex
Geo Wyex is both hard to characterize and unmistakable when in character, on stage or elsewhere. The New York- born,…
Counter-stances and refusal. A Conversation with Deborah-Joyce Holman
One could easily describe Deborah-Joyce Holman as an “inter-” or “multidisciplinary artist,” though the term merely suggests someone who works…
Full-Circle Horror. A Conversation with James Bantone
I had followed James Bantone on Instagram long before I knew him in real life. I assumed he was an…
Self-Conception in the Making. A Conversation with Tarik Kiswanson
I have often heard others make a distinction between “the artist” and “the person” when talking about their interactions with…
Living in a Material World. A Conversation with Tenant of Culture
In July, Camden Art Centre opened “Soft Acid,” the first institutional exhibition of Tenant of Culture (the anonym for the…
No Word Can Hold the Person. A Conversation with Rindon Johnson
Rindon Johnson’s work is as much about poetry as it is about presence. Poetry, in how the American artist uses…