Lydia Ourahmane “Barzakh” Kunsthalle Basel
The correlation between one’s home situation and one’s life has been a tireless truism of this past year — and…
Magazine Articles
Lemaniana. Reflections on other scenes. A survey of current artistic production in the Léman Region
As part of our ongoing investigation of contemporary practices, the following pages discuss on the new project “Lemaniana,” opening at…
Promising Young Woman: A Dialogue
“Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.” — Margaret Atwood…
The Age of Love: Notes toward a Nonbinary World
I remember a team meeting at MACBA — it must have been around 2010 — in which the question of…
Alejandro Cardenas “ALEXANDRIA” Almine Rech / New York
These days, it’s not hard to imagine a future in which we can no longer go outside — everywhere we…
Emma McIntyre “Pour plenty on the worlds” Chris Sharp Gallery / Los Angeles
Like clouds, abstract paintings invite our own inferences and preoccupations, showing us what we want to see. Pushing against this…
Love Song: On Lana Del Rey’s Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass
In “How to Disappear,” a song from her last album, Norman Fucking Rockwell!, Lana Del Rey leads us to expect…
MODEL CITIZEN: Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons. A Modernist Revulsion for Nostalgia
When I was living three driftless years in Berlin, I, like all residents, new or otherwise, would have to register…
Episode IV: Parterre / The Stalls
The systems of governance that Michel Foucault and Deleuze & Guattari taught us to identify as “sovereignty,” “discipline,” and “control”…
Fluid Gesture. Transformations and Transmissions in the Bodies of Michele Rizzo
There is something fluid in dance. It lies neither in the quality of the action — obviously kinetic — nor…
Rebecca Lamarche-Vadel / Managing director at Lafayette Anticipations, Paris
ON VIEW is a printed and an online section in which Flash Art invites prominent figures of the art world…
Giving Image to an Afro–Future with Lauren Halsey
To artist Lauren Halsey, South Central Los Angeles is the most creative place on Earth. Through her funk-inspired sculptures and…
Los Angeles, November 2020
When I was asked to write a personal perspective on a subject of my choosing, I began writing a critical…
Slanted and Re-enchanted: Magic Oneohtrix Point Never
Hypnagogic pop star Daniel Lopatin, thirty-eight, who performs as Oneohtrix Point Never, has just released his self-titled record Magic Oneohtrix…
337 WINTER 2020-21
Against Passive Seeing: Shaun Leonardo
Exploring issues of race and masculinity, Shaun Leonardo’s multimedia practice exposes and redresses the white supremacist power structures that oppress…