“Magic Realism: Imagining Natural Dis/order" WIELS, Brussels
“Magical Realism: Imagining Natural Dis/order” — which reconsiders our relationship to the planet at a time of climate emergency —…
Magazine Articles
Seoul: Glitch City
Plans are always copy-pasted. There is no planning, no imagination. Seoul is not built; it is generated through calculation. Buildings…
“akâmi” Camden Art Centre, London
How do objects speak when language falls short? What does it mean to cross — not just borders, but generations,…
Total Warfare. A Conversation with Luigi Alberto Cippini
Michael Abel: First question — how does Volumes begin? Luigi Alberto Cippini: What I tried to do, within my limitations, was to make something…
And Yet. Diego Marcon
“I like the term pervert or perversion,” says Diego Marcon, speaking to me during an early June heatwave, his Italian rrrrrs rolling deliciously. He’s…
Wolfgang Tillmans “Nothing could have prepared us – Everything could have prepared us” Centre Pompidou, Paris
This September, Centre Pompidou will close for five years, beginning an extensive renovation process that includes asbestos removal and essential…
And Fate. Andra Ursuța
Why so much grief for me? No man will hurl me down to Death, against my fate. And fate? No…
Down Country. Eloise Parry
Here in these parts, flocks of grazing sheep are daubed in bile yellow or scarlet red paint to demarcate property:…
Louise Bonnet and Elizabeth King “De Anima" / Swiss Institute, New York
Are we the body, or are we the soul? This age-old philosophical dilemma is at the heart of a striking…
The Curator as Cartographer: Mapping the Intangible with Ziyi Xiong
Ceramics, ancient history and contemporary art – the exhibitions curated by Ziyi Xiong look beneath the surface at the…
Loop: Substance and Circumstance. Olga Balema
Repetition is the stuff of everyday life; it’s what we do. Even when I’m mixing it up, there’s a subjective…
Polyconceptual Futures: MILLIØNS’. A Conversation with Zeina Koreitem and John May
Michael Abel: I studied and practiced with you in graduate school nearly a decade ago — an experience that shaped…
New World Order. A Conversation with Agnieszka Polska
One cannot think of the contemporary grotesque without cuteness. Morally vacant, cuteness fuels the slot machines of internet scrolls, firing…
"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…
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…