The Age of Love: Chapter II Quack! A Duck’s Heart
Over the last few months I’ve had several important encounters with swans, geese, and ducks. We humans, now outside our…
Magazine Articles
The Sensual Spiral. A conversation with Fatima Al Qadiri
Andrea Lissoni: How are you doing? Fatima Al Qadiri: I’m good. I just finished a big project, so it’s my…
Paris, April 2021
In France we have a tradition of protecting awful people not just in the name of power but also in…
Cao Fei: Overlapping Temporalities and Realities
Hou Hanru: When I first visited her studio, Cao Fei had just graduated from the art academy. Her parents were…
Transitional States: From Body to Object, From Object to Body. A Conversation with Cecilia Bengolea
Eleonora Milani: Let’s start from the beginning. How did you start dancing and become a choreographer? Has it been a…
Charlotte Laubard / Dean of the Visual Arts Department at HEAD – Haute école d'art et de design, Geneva
ON VIEW is a printed and an online section in which Flash Art invites prominent figures of the art world…
Guillaume Désanges / Curator of La Verrière, Fondation d’entreprise Hermès’ exhibition space, Brussels
ON VIEW is a printed and an online section in which Flash Art invites prominent figures of the art world…
“Grief and Grievance” New Museum / New York
“Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America” was conceived by the late Nigerian-born curator Okwui Enwezor in 2018, and…
Zurich, February 2021
It is 3:17 am as I start writing this column. I went to bed early, maybe a little after 10…
Alain Jacquet “Jeux de Jacquet” Galerie Perrotin / Paris
Perrotin Gallery’s Alain Jacquet (1939–2008) retrospective is a pop-colored historical overview clustered tightly around some sixty two-dimensional works. The exhibition…
Music as a True Statement, Sound as a Definition of Space: Carl Craig
“Carl Craig: Party/After-Party” (2020) is an ambitious multisensory installation by legendary Detroit-based musician, DJ, and producer Carl Craig, commissioned by…
Remarks on installations and changes in time dimensions
Originally published in Flash Art no. 162 January/February 1992. The farsightedness with which Weil analyzes the then-nascent 1990s is indicative…
Julie Mehretu: On Black Abstraction, Futurity and Opacity as a Space of Liberation
Just days before the US election, as Americans were grappling with the fallout of a global pandemic, a summer of…
Anne Imhof in Three Acts, an Improvisation: Hunter, Writer, Lover
I. Hunter Although it has been about twenty-five years since I played video games with any frequency, lately I have…
Telfar: Not for You, for Everyone. A conversation with Babak Radboy
Andrea Bellini: Let’s start with trash, which is very often synonymous with history. Following the assault by Donald Trump supporters…
Prediction in the Era of Digital Stupidity: Hito Steyerl
The most popular song of 2019/2020, “Dance Monkey,” is about mimicry, repetition, loops, and uncontrolled movement: Move for me, move…