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…
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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…
The Conditions that Shape. Sophie Friedman-Pappas
On the Greek island of Tinos, centuries-old dovecotes — white stone towers originally used to harvest pigeon droppings as fertilizer…
ANY: Silvery-Grayish Boxes
If cathode ray blue was the color of the “digital,” and millennial pink that of the “post-digital,” with perhaps a…
“HEAD FOR THE HILLS!” Hammer Museum / Los Angeles
The Hammer Museum group exhibition “HEAD FOR THE HILLS!” takes its title from John Knight’s 1974 untitled slide projection piece.…
Never Let Go. Sidsel Meineche Hansen
Immersed in a perpetual hypnagogic state, Sidsel Meineche Hansen’s Grumpy (2025) is an eviscerated yet undead killjoy – an agential…
Forms’ Fall from Utopia
We live in the shadows of forms. Ideas, perfection of realities made through abstraction. Extracting something’s essence through philosophical clinical…
The Device of Eternal Motion. A Conversation with Karla Kaplun
Mexican artist Karla Kaplun makes work around the construction and functioning of collective memory, and how that unfolds in dynamics…
“STEADYSTATE” Zero… / Milan
Time, in “STEADYSTATE,” doesn’t tick — it lingers, loops, and evaporates. The group exhibition at Zero… in Milan, co-curated with…
Zurich: Peripheral Presence.
Moving through Zurich — whether on foot, by bicycle, tram, or car — rarely involves a direct or uninterrupted trajectory.…
TOWARDS A CYBERSPACIAL URBAN TERRAIN. A Conversation with Rem Koolhaas
Francesco Bonami: Do you still think that Manhattan is the center of the culture of congestion? Rem Koolhaas: It is…
The Familiar Strange. Phung-Tien Phan
I first came across the work of German-Vietnamese artist Phung-Tien Phan during a visit to Project Native Informant during the…
Nora Turato “pool7” ICA – Institute of Contemporary Arts / London
Nora Turato’s “pool7” is an elaborate attempt at an exorcism — of language, of self, and of what she repeatedly…
Bayberry Greenhouses: Monumentality and Cropscape
Clouds of mist part in the mountains of Lin’an (临安), China to reveal a fragment of reptilian skin. A mass…