The Straightforward Complexity of Psyche. Paul McCarthy
Paul McCarthy’s art often challenges societal norms and expectations through absurd, provocative, and humorous imagery. Even his most disturbing works…
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Square One. A conversation with Kate Spencer Stewart
The Los Angeles–based artist Kate Spencer Stewart and I video chat from our respective desks — mine is actually my…
Don’t Be Alive. Aki Goto
The first time I encountered Aki Goto’s work, it was received as a message from a friend during the summer…
Reality Breaks the Frame. Lenard Giller 
Lenard Giller sees his moving-image works as closer to photography than film. The camera never moves; its stasis is kinetically…
[Diary Entry – Undated, perhaps imagined]. Anna Clegg
It’s difficult to pinpoint where Anna Clegg’s paintings first appeared. Maybe it was online, or in a basement gallery in…
Compassionate Pessimism. Cécile B. Evans
A memory: Before reconnecting with them a few days ago in preparation for this text, I had last spoken to…
And Yet. Diego Marcon
“I like the term pervert or perversion,” says Diego Marcon, speaking to me during an early June heatwave, his Italian rrrrrs rolling deliciously. He’s…
And Fate. Andra Ursuța
Why so much grief for me? No man will hurl me down to Death, against my fate. And fate? No…
Loop: Substance and Circumstance. Olga Balema
Repetition is the stuff of everyday life; it’s what we do. Even when I’m mixing it up, there’s a subjective…
New World Order. A Conversation with Agnieszka Polska
One cannot think of the contemporary grotesque without cuteness. Morally vacant, cuteness fuels the slot machines of internet scrolls, firing…
Membrane As Ledger. Lyric Shen
“If place is always retrospective, how do we begin? With blatant flaws.”1 – Lisa Robertson Lyric Shen’s oeuvre seems to…
Fog Work. A Conversation with Daiga Grantina
Daiga Grantina’s 2020 exhibition, “What Eats Around Itself,” at New Museum in New York — my first encounter with her…
Mean Time Between Failure. A Conversation with Racheal Crowther
Racheal Crowther attempts to materialize the immaterial across her largely installation-based output. Recent work examines how the five bodily senses…
Almost Nothing
Almost nothing is too much. – Reyner Banham, 19621 It is not uncommon to hear that architecture today has dissolved,…
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…
Repairing Shinjuku
We held a solo exhibition titled “TEIRE / Repair” (2021) at Whitehouse in Shinjuku. The exhibition centered on repairing the…