“Chrysalis: The Butterfly Dream” Centre d’Art Contemporain / Genève

The risk of partial reception or the flattening of content in thematic, muscular exhibitions like the one presented by the…
The risk of partial reception or the flattening of content in thematic, muscular exhibitions like the one presented by the…
The first thing visitors hear upon entering the foyer of Fridericianum is a swelling, deeply unsettling noise. Cascade-like, akin to…
Metal artifacts are arranged neatly against the walls: the spectator is surrounded. From this description, you’d be forgiven for thinking…
“What am I? Which part of this body is me?” asks an animated figure in The Great Adventure of Material…
How do we experience an artwork? For most readers, and for me, our eyes receive and process it, often in…
In Alfatih’s exhibition “Day in the Life” at the Swiss Institute, the viewer becomes a new kind of observer: one…
The concept of impossibility changes over time, reflecting larger shifts in consciousness and zeitgeist. What is probable becomes common and…
My generation confronts the anxiety of death in a new and peremptory way. I was reflecting on this as I…
US artist cameron clayborn (b. 1992) made the sculptures homegrown #1 and #2 in 2021, and yet the wafer-thin structures…
“New York: 1962–1964,” on view at the Jewish Museum, New York, is the last exhibition conceived by Germano Celant before…
Each Renée Green work is an exhibition in itself. Multipart in form, often originally site-specific, Green’s works are precise webs…
“Carolee Schneemann: Body Politics,” on view at the Barbican Centre, begins with paintings. The opening text reads: “I’m a painter.…
Having received nearly simultaneous invitations from a pair of Parisian institutions, Cyprien Gaillard proposed an exhibition that could heap the…
It’s a disturbing sight, at first: a person up against the wall of the ICA in Philadelphia, sniffing it. Then…
Cecilia Alemani has curated a posthuman biennial, or so the worldwide press reports. The New York curator used the term…
“When, beneath the black mask, a human being begins to make himself felt one cannot escape a certain awful wonder…