Martine Syms “Aphrodite’s Beasts” Fridericianum / Kassel
Martine Syms’s video art, photographs, and autobiographical fiction are anchored by a first-person narrator — with all her potential for…
Magazine Articles
Nour Mobarak: Movements of Spheres for a Hybrid Economy of Desire
In installations with multi-channel sound sources, Mobarak mixes the words of her polyglot father, whose memory is failing, with the…
Los Angeles, July 2021
TW: this text contains graphic language about gun violence. I was born at Cedars Sinai in Los Angeles on September…
“La Mer Imaginaire (The Imaginary Sea)” Fondation Carmignac / Porquerolles Island, France
Imagining a direct dialogue with the sea while walking through the rooms of Fondation Carmignac, as the title suggests, is…
Free My Mind, Artpop: You Make My Heart Stop (For Lady Gaga)
It’s been a long time since I came around Been a long time but I’m back in town This time…
James Barnor “Accra/London – A Retrospective” Serpentine Galleries / London
Selina Opong, Policewoman #10 (c. 1954), in the crisp uniform of a new generation of professional Ghanaian women, stands to…
Bio-Hazard: Pakui Hardware
With an almost uncannily timely relevance, Pakui Hardware’s most recent body of work delves into remote healthcare technologies and services:…
Virgil Abloh “Figures of Speech” ICA / Boston
Two phrases reverberate like battling incantations throughout Virgil Abloh’s exhibition at ICA Boston, both from the video Peculiar Contrast, Perfect…
Materialist Invisibility: Art As Organic Development In Pamela Rosenkranz’s Work
In the nineteenth century, Karl Marx declared that the “engine of history” was the working class, ushering in revolutions. In…
Niki de Saint Phalle “Structures for Life” MoMA PS1 / New York
“Structures for Life,” a beguiling survey of the still vibrant and radical work of Niki de Saint Phalle conjured from…
An Autofictional Theory of the Last Decade of the Art World: On Emily Segal’s Mercury Retrograde
Crisis engulfs Emily Segal. Several years after the Great Recession, Segal is freshly unemployed and has moved out of her…
Prophetic Culture: Experiencing the End of the World. A conversation with Federico Campagna
Andrea Bellini: Dear Federico, let’s start from the very end, that is to say, from the end of the world.…
Intimate Dislocations: On Lydia Ourahmane’s Barzakh
“Allow me, then, as we part company at this threshold [barzakh], to break the contract between one absurdity and another.”1…
Try Again. Fail Again. Fail Better. In memory of Kaari Upson (1970 – 2021)
Douglas Fogle: About the mattresses… Kaari Upson: I saw them as this intermission, a project between two very large acts, a…
Terra Incognita. A conversation with Caterina Barbieri
Caterina Barbieri is an Italian musician and composer. She completed her studies at the Conservatory of Bologna and then at…
“Age of You” Jameel Arts Centre / Dubai
The details of Victoria Sin’s Illocutionary Utterances (2018) — makeup-clogged pores, hairs poking out of nostrils, wet teeth pushing against…