Image, performance, protest
Over the past decade, much has been written about the rise of performance in contemporary art’s institutions, with gargantuan architectures…
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Vincent Fecteau CCA Wattis Institute / San Francisco
In Vincent Fecteau’s most recent solo exhibition at the CCA Wattis Institute — his first show in San Francisco, his…
Luke Ching Chin Wai | South Ho Siu Nam Blindingspot / Hong Kong
The past eight months of political protest have left the administration of Hong Kong speechless. In failing to acknowledge its…
FALSE SPACES TOKAS Project / Tokyo
For its second edition, TOKAS Project invited Hong Kong Arts Centre and independent curator Yuk-Yiu Ip to present a media…
Liz Magor Marcelle Alix / Paris
Halfway into Canadian sculptor Liz Magor’s exhibition at Marcelle Alix, I brazenly swung myself down on a plinth only millimeters…
Marguerite Humeau CLEARING /Brussels
Maguerite Humeau’s earlier exhibitions at the Palais de Tokyo and Nottingham Contemporary (2016–17) focused on what allowed the human species…
Elaine Cameron-Weir JTT / New York
In Elaine Cameron-Weir’s “strings that show the wind,” three sets of paired sculptures stand, as if halted mid-procession, atop an…
Emily Mae Smith Galerie Perrotin / Tokyo
In past interviews, Emily Mae Smith has described her current style and aesthetic as a result of her own experiences…
Elysia Crampton: Beyond the horizon of coloniality
“We come from a heavily colonized country where they adopted Christianity. I saw the way [my grandmother] navigated her relationship…
Sharing space: Meriem Bennani on Teleportation, Babycouple Adults, and Postcolonial Morocco
Combining an impressive range of imagery drawn from YouTube, reality television, music videos, cartoons, documentary footage, and self-crafted animations, the…
The Machinery of Identity: Candice Breitz
Candice Breitz says she hasn’t slept all week. Yet, as I visit the artist in her studio in a long-gentrified…
When Body Horror Meets Fairy Tale: The Films of Marianna Simnett
In her legendary 1991 essay “The Cyborg Manifesto,” Donna Haraway described a world that many of us then dismissed as…
Adjacency: Luke Willis Thompson’s Poethics of Care
The right to look or the right to look away? Who chooses to look and who chooses to look away?…
COMPOSING HOME / UNIVERSAL RIGHTS
Composing Home In this time when we humans have become a geologic force, most of us live in increasingly…
Landlord Colors: On Art, Economy, and Materiality Cranbrook Museum / Detroit
“Landlord Colors” stages a comparative history of the art of sociopolitical upheaval, bringing together work from five far-flung locales during…
Gelitin & Liam Gillick Kunsthalle Wien / Wien
Like anything else, “Stinking Dawn” affects the way you see things as much as it reflects them, but it is…