Better Problems
NEW YORK, 2023 I thought I would share some thoughts with you. To let you in on the state of…
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Show Them, Tell Them, Don’t Explain. A Conversation with Sara Sadik
Marseille-based video and performance artist Sara Sadik is best known for her emblematic work on the Maghrebi diaspora in France.…
Pol Taburet: In Love, In Life, In Violence: The Art and Process of Unbecoming
Sometimes people are simply cool. You know what I mean: when you meet someone, only to be struck by a…
P.Staff: Ardor, Attrition
What do you dream of When life’s not given?1 Venus crushes. Peony-dense, obliterating human experience in compacted flusters of sheer…
We are tragic sleepers
“We are tragic sleepers,” texts Miciah sometime in October. He and I happen to be birthday twins, as were our…
Isa Genzken: Tactical Slippage
Although a single word could never encapsulate the boundless range of Isa Genzken’s artistic production, one that comes close is…
“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…
Roberto Cuoghi Fridericianum / Kassel
The first thing visitors hear upon entering the foyer of Fridericianum is a swelling, deeply unsettling noise. Cascade-like, akin to…
June Crespo “They Saw their House Turn Into Fields” Museo CA2M / Madrid
Metal artifacts are arranged neatly against the walls: the spectator is surrounded. From this description, you’d be forgiven for thinking…
LuYang “Vibratory Field” Kunsthalle Basel
“What am I? Which part of this body is me?” asks an animated figure in The Great Adventure of Material…
Isabelle Albuquerque: The Patron Saint of Plurality
I’m a little lost without you / That could be an understatement / Now I hope that I have paid…
Mimosa Echard: Escape More, See Less
With great homogeneity of purpose, French artist Mimosa Echard’s work unfolds from one exhibition to the next in an ongoing…
Carolyn Lazard “Long Take” Nottingham Contemporary
How do we experience an artwork? For most readers, and for me, our eyes receive and process it, often in…
Bri Williams: Defamiliarizing Myths
Bri Williams’s work drifts between feeling and intellect, eroding the distinction between the two into an embodied knowing and experience…
K.R.M. Mooney: Lastings
I relish that no one knows the time one may put into solitude. Yours, mine, alone. One’s interior life is…
Alfatih “Day in the Life” Swiss Institute / New York
In Alfatih’s exhibition “Day in the Life” at the Swiss Institute, the viewer becomes a new kind of observer: one…