Seaworthy: Ransacking and Looting SoHo >> Marseilles. A Conversation with Hannah Black.
How do we swim in the same direction? Free will is conceivable when humans are liberated from determination and can…
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Nan Goldin “This Will Not End Well” Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
“My whole life is based on memories. I remember everything that’s ever been said to me,” Nan Goldin remarks in…
Mary Ellen Mark “Encounters” C/O / Berlin
Were someone to grab me by the collar and demand a definition of good documentary photography, I might offer the…
Farah Al Qasimi: Assortment of Truths
I first stumbled upon Farah Al Qasimi’s work on Instagram. I’m not one to invoke my “identity” as a rationale…
“Nonmemory” Hauser & Wirth / Los Angeles
At Hauser & Wirth, seven works by the late Mike Kelley, mostly sculptures isolated from their conceptual contexts, sit with…
Kayode Ojo “EDEN” 52 Walker, New York
Kayode Ojo’s signature glitter finds its largest stage yet at 52 Walker, where one wall of the sprawling 3,385-square-foot space…
O-Town House, Los Angeles. A Conversation with Scott Cameron Weaver
“Curator” is a pretty new word. It has made its way into dictionaries over the past few decades, and we…
Gray Wielebinski “The Red Sun is High, the Blue Low” ICA / London
The title of Gray Wielebinski’s exhibition at the ICA is derived from the title of a 1978 essay by Samuel…
Rineke Dijkstra: Face-à-Face: Portraiture, Faciality, and Mirroring
Dutch photographer Rineke Dijkstra’s recent three-channel video installation Night Watching (2019) offers one of the most entertaining and compelling examples…
“WORLDBUILDING: Gaming and Art in the digital age” Centre Pompidou - Metz
In Paul Verhoeven’s film Elle (2016), the main character, played by Isabelle Huppert, runs a gaming company. At a meeting,…
Rhea Dillon: Viewing Altered Grounds
Rhea Dillon is an artist whose work spans video, painting, sculpture, writing, live performance, and even olfaction. I first met…
WangShui: Between Worlds
What does it mean to live comfortably between worlds? Adaptation does not always guarantee success. Think of recalibrating any timeworn…
Isa Genzken “75/75” Neue Nationalgalerie / Berlin
Don’t let the bizarrely vague introductory wall text by curators Klaus Biesenbach and Lisa Botti, which describes Isa Genzken as…
“OUT OF THE BOX – 20 Years Schaulager” Schaulager / Basel
As elegantly simple — and perhaps quintessentially Swiss — a premise to an exhibition as one is likely to encounter:…
SoiL Thornton: Vug Culturing, Swallet Thinking
Again: does productivity know what it’s named, maybe it calls itself identity?1 That spinning coin, productivity and identity, ever flickering.…
Parabolical Apocalypses. A conversation with Precious Okoyomon
Precious Okoyomon breathes new life into their installation topographies with the solo exhibition “the sun eats her children” at Sant’Andrea…