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…
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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…
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…