Baseera Khan "I Am an Archive" Brooklyn Museum / New York
The advent and proliferation of technologies that encourage practices of accumulating and storing information has precipitated a contemporary preoccupation with…
Magazine Articles
Tishan Hsu: Body Currents
As of late, “prescient” has become the preferred modifier for artist, Tishan Hsu. Indeed, as framed by the recent retrospective…
Stepping Towards Something Like an Experience: The Wu Tsang's Moby Dick
Hidden stories and marginal narratives have attracted Wu Tsang throughout her artistic career. The belief that history is nothing but…
Charles Ray Centre Pompidou and Pinault Collection – Bourse de Commerce / Paris
Plank Piece I and II (1973), a black-and-white photographic diptych showing the young Charles Ray’s body pinned against the wall…
Jackie Winsor MAMCO / Genève
When Michael Fried published his notorious essay “Art and Objecthood” (1967), he likely did not expect “theatricality” to become such…
Berenice Olmedo: The Myth of Autonomy
My first introduction to Berenice Olmedo’s work, which encompasses sculpture, performance, and installation, was a photo of the artist dressed…
When Your Smile Is So Wide and Your Heels Are So High: The Paintings of Louisa Gagliardi
My father recently told me how he often walks around the house opening doors and gazing into empty rooms. He…
Misaligned Identities: Raphaela Vogel
When I think back on 2018 there is always something that feels misaligned — a disconnect between myself and the…
Zoe Leonard “Al río / To the River” MUDAM / Luxembourg
I usually say that an exhibition is not a book on the walls. For once, I was wrong. Zoe Leonard’s…
Julien Creuzet’s Complex Work: Plastic Poetics, Landscapes, Hybridizations
Born in 1986 in the suburbs of Paris, Julien Creuzet grew up in Martinique before returning to study in the…
For the Love of Doing Nothing: The bare minimum collective on Illness, Care, and Work
There may be no greater act of resistance to the worsening global crises of illness and exploitation than to stop…
Speculative Sunrise
In Los Angeles, we never really see the sunrise. Instead, there is a time when the sky lightens, but our…
Colin Self: On Shadows and Spotlights
Colin Self is a mutable creature. Born and raised in a suburb of Portland, Oregon, with the disarmingly friendly name…
Processing Placelessness: When Screens take Bodies. A Conversation with Shuang Li
For the performance work Lord of the Flies (2021), Shuang Li remotely trained twenty performers, each following a script, to…
Desire Machines: The Art of Kayode Ojo
As part of his recent show at Sweetwater in Berlin, Kayode Ojo presented an ascending row of letterboxes, each opened…
Metro Pictures (1980-2021). Expressionism embarrasses me. A conversation with Janelle Reiring and Helene Winer
Originally published in Flash Art International no. 133, April 1987. I met Helene Winer when she was still at Artists…