Black Lives Matter
Originally published in Flash Art no. 324 February-March 2019. When I came to the United States in January 1955 to…
Magazine Articles
Etel Adnan: Responsibility to That Green
Originally published in Flash Art no. 324 February-March 2019. When I was thirteen, Etel Adnan and Simone Fattal, who were…
On Etel Adnan: An Introduction
Originally published in Flash Art no. 324 February-March 2019. The very first work I saw by Etel Adnan — one…
Beyond Physics. A conversation with Pan Daijing
Andrea Lissoni: Let’s start from your new commission for Tai Kwun Contemporary in Hong Kong, “One Hundred Nine Minus” 一…
Arts at CERN: Where Art Meets Science. A conversation with Mónica Bello
Over the past hundred years or so, artists and scientists have come to follow increasingly common paths, from exploration to…
Systemic Errors of Collective Intelligence. A Conversation with Agnieszka Kurant
Agnieszka Kurant’s complex conceptual practice can be described in many ways: as research into the invisible, as a study of…
Martine Syms “Aphrodite’s Beasts” Fridericianum / Kassel
Martine Syms’s video art, photographs, and autobiographical fiction are anchored by a first-person narrator — with all her potential for…
Nour Mobarak: Movements of Spheres for a Hybrid Economy of Desire
In installations with multi-channel sound sources, Mobarak mixes the words of her polyglot father, whose memory is failing, with the…
Los Angeles, July 2021
TW: this text contains graphic language about gun violence. I was born at Cedars Sinai in Los Angeles on September…
“La Mer Imaginaire (The Imaginary Sea)” Fondation Carmignac / Porquerolles Island, France
Imagining a direct dialogue with the sea while walking through the rooms of Fondation Carmignac, as the title suggests, is…
Free My Mind, Artpop: You Make My Heart Stop (For Lady Gaga)
It’s been a long time since I came around Been a long time but I’m back in town This time…
James Barnor “Accra/London – A Retrospective” Serpentine Galleries / London
Selina Opong, Policewoman #10 (c. 1954), in the crisp uniform of a new generation of professional Ghanaian women, stands to…
Bio-Hazard: Pakui Hardware
With an almost uncannily timely relevance, Pakui Hardware’s most recent body of work delves into remote healthcare technologies and services:…
Virgil Abloh “Figures of Speech” ICA / Boston
Two phrases reverberate like battling incantations throughout Virgil Abloh’s exhibition at ICA Boston, both from the video Peculiar Contrast, Perfect…
Materialist Invisibility: Art As Organic Development In Pamela Rosenkranz’s Work
In the nineteenth century, Karl Marx declared that the “engine of history” was the working class, ushering in revolutions. In…
Niki de Saint Phalle “Structures for Life” MoMA PS1 / New York
“Structures for Life,” a beguiling survey of the still vibrant and radical work of Niki de Saint Phalle conjured from…