Storm Girl. A Conversation with Elizabeth Jaeger
“I alone (well, probably not) know the great secret of this existence, and I’ll have to live out the rest…
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Jana Euler “Oilopa” WIELS / Brussels
At a time of climate upheaval, when every action and gesture is examined in terms of its carbon footprint, it’s…
How You’re Supposed to Be. A Conversation with Sylvie Hayes-Wallace
Sylvie Hayes-Wallace makes work by way of accumulation: out of the “ephemera” of living, out of emotional pain, selves and…
Submit to the Black Compost. 1 A Conversation with Rirkrit Tiravanija
I unfolded the letter and read the contents. The letter is a xeroxed copy. The first line of the letter…
Marianna Simnett “WINNER” Hamburger Bahnhof / Berlin
Marianna Simnett’s three-channel video installation WINNER (2024) occupies a vast space in Berlin’s Hamburger Bahnhof. Viewers enter through a dark…
Donald Rodney “Visceral Canker” Spike Island / Bristol
Standing in front of Donald Rodney’s Visceral Canker (1990) — a seemingly living work, which this survey exhibition at Spike…
Los Angeles: Impossible Thinking. A Conversation with Gracie Hadland
When I talk to Megan Plunkett, she’s driving across the American West. I imagine her in cheap motels, greasy spoon…
Things End, People Forget
In 2022, I was invited by Frieze’s director, Christine Messineo, to curate a series of artists’ projects, installations, performances, and…
Olivia Erlanger “If Today Were Tomorrow” Contemporary Arts Museum Houston
Olivia Erlanger’s exhibition “If Today Were Tomorrow” starts in space. Space as in vantage point. Space as in site, both…
Ass to Mouth Forever! A Conversation with Bárbara Sánchez-Kane
Engineering school in Mexico, tailoring school in Florence, an apprenticeship with fashion designer Bernhard Willhelm in California, followed by the…
Pierre Huyghe “Liminal” Punta della Dogana / Venice
There’s an enigmatic peculiarity to Pierre Huyghe’s work, a riddle one can easily get lost in and miss the more…
The Room is the City
London April 2024 This room is the city. Before that, the ward was the city. The bedcovers mass, the sun…
Green Pill: Brook Hsu
“Everything is fiction,” Brook Hsu has said, “but fiction is also one of the most powerful things for us to…
Lutz Bacher: What is X?
A profile of Lutz Bacher requires reimagining what a profile is, which is just fine because her art asks similar…
As a Stranger Give it Welcome. A Conversation with Amanda Ziemele
“Either this is madness, or it is hell.” “It is neither,” calmly replied the voice of the Sphere, “it is…
Nancy Holt “Circles of Light” Gropius Bau / Berlin
Is Nancy Holt primarily a land artist? The notion of Land art conjures a time generations ago when landscape…