Compose Yourself. Alexandra Metcalf
Upon first encounter, the work of British-American artist Alexandra Metcalf captivates with its unapologetic femininity. Her paintings have a distinctly…
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Repairing Shinjuku
We held a solo exhibition titled “TEIRE / Repair” (2021) at Whitehouse in Shinjuku. The exhibition centered on repairing the…
Never Let Go. Sidsel Meineche Hansen
Immersed in a perpetual hypnagogic state, Sidsel Meineche Hansen’s Grumpy (2025) is an eviscerated yet undead killjoy – an agential…
Forms’ Fall from Utopia
We live in the shadows of forms. Ideas, perfection of realities made through abstraction. Extracting something’s essence through philosophical clinical…
The Device of Eternal Motion. A Conversation with Karla Kaplun
Mexican artist Karla Kaplun makes work around the construction and functioning of collective memory, and how that unfolds in dynamics…
Bayberry Greenhouses: Monumentality and Cropscape
Clouds of mist part in the mountains of Lin’an (临安), China to reveal a fragment of reptilian skin. A mass…
Who Are These People? A Conversation with Kai Althoff
Carlo Antonelli: Who are these people, the ones that populates your works? Kai Althoff: They accumulate. Some return more often…
A Room with a View. Hardy Hill
The first camera was a darkened room. Through a pinhole, the outside world was reflected on the opposite wall, upside…
Participatory Design or Processual Formalism? Frei Otto, the Ökohaus, and the Ökohäusler
My first, fleeting encounter with the Ökohaus (Eco-House) project came during an all too brief visit to Berlin in November…
Survival Mechanism. A Conversation with Christine Sun Kim
Christine Sun Kim began working at the Whitney in 2007 as an educator, and later, as a consultant to establish…
Sculpting Light. A Conversation with Nana Wolke
When I speak with Nana Wolke over Zoom, she has just returned to New York after spending Christmas in Ljubljana,…
Happy Accidents, Silver Linings: Nat Faulkner
Nat Faulkner produces images — but also the potential for images. He uses photography’s sleight of hand, from the micro…
Not (Not) An Autobiography. A Conversation with Sophie Calle
Arriving at Sophie Calle’s studio in Malakoff on a rainy day, one steps into a quiet courtyard where an urban-yet-wild…
Scaling Collapse: David Eskenazi
Crisis Formalism has a subcategory: “Collapse.” This is the most challenging stance taken in the issue, as it demands absolute…
Nasty Girl Kills English Language. Ebun Sodipo
Start with the opening scene of Spike Lee’s 1996 comedy Girl 6, in which an as yet no-name aspiring actress,…
Jon Rafman: Virtual Flânerie.
For nearly two decades, Jon Rafman has been a leading voice in the discourse about the relationship between Internet technology…