"Folding the Sea into Dresses that Dissolve Like Salt” Perasma / Leros Island
Just off the coastline of Asia Minor, the Greek island of Leros is a palimpsest of colonial history, layered with…
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Chan Hau Chun “Map of Traces” Empty Gallery / Hong Kong
Located far from the city center, on the south side of Hong Kong Island, Empty Gallery is tucked into the…
Membrane As Ledger. Lyric Shen
“If place is always retrospective, how do we begin? With blatant flaws.”1 – Lisa Robertson Lyric Shen’s oeuvre seems to…
Institut Funder Bakke, Silkeborg. A Conversation with Andreas Führer
What do we do with what we are born into? This question lingers in the air at Institut Funder Bakke…
Roni Horn Galleria Raffaella Cortese / Milan
Spread across three venues, Roni Horn’s exhibition at Raffaella Cortese in Milan celebrates the gallery’s thirtieth anniversary and its long-standing…
“Painting After Painting” S.M.A.K. / Ghent
A recurring refrain in recent decades is that painting is dead. And yet, it continues —sometimes loudly, sometimes zombified. “Painting…
Fog Work. A Conversation with Daiga Grantina
Daiga Grantina’s 2020 exhibition, “What Eats Around Itself,” at New Museum in New York — my first encounter with her…
Mean Time Between Failure. A Conversation with Racheal Crowther
Racheal Crowther attempts to materialize the immaterial across her largely installation-based output. Recent work examines how the five bodily senses…
Almost Nothing
Almost nothing is too much. – Reyner Banham, 19621 It is not uncommon to hear that architecture today has dissolved,…
Klára Hosnedlová “embrace” Hamburger Bahnhof / Berlin
Klára Hosnedlová’s “embrace,” which inaugurates three years’ worth of Chanel-sponsored programming in the Hamburger Bahnhof’s main hall, foxes formal categorizing…
In Medias Res. Sofia Defino Leiby
I first met Sofia Defino Leiby pre-pandemic, on a bus as part of a crowd, and she mentioned that she…
“The Gatherers” MoMA PS1 / New York
What are the stakes of insisting upon political hope, in all its felt potential for redeeming past injustices, when progressivism…
Compose Yourself. Alexandra Metcalf
Upon first encounter, the work of British-American artist Alexandra Metcalf captivates with its unapologetic femininity. Her paintings have a distinctly…
Repairing Shinjuku
We held a solo exhibition titled “TEIRE / Repair” (2021) at Whitehouse in Shinjuku. The exhibition centered on repairing the…
Performing the Grotesque: Trans and Gender Nonconforming Artists and the Aesthetics of Bodily Excess
“I am not tragic. I am not beautiful. I am not a symbol. I am simply too much — too…
“Corps et âmes” Bourse de Commerce / Paris
In Kerry James Marshall’s seminal 1986 work The Wonderful One, the figure is an ineffable silhouette: its dimensionality is reduced…