Leidy Churchman “The Between is Ringing” Rodeo / London
At first blush, the wound appears amoeboid. Afloat in decontextualized, atemporal amber, its charred kohl perimeter the blackness of clotting.…
Reviews
“The Films of Guillaume Dustan (2000–2004)” Fri Art Kunsthalle / Fribourg
At the turn of the millennium, Guillaume Dustan was a spark plug of queer issues. His autofictional debut novel made…
David Hammons “Body Prints, 1968-1979” The Drawing Center / New York
David Hammons’s “body prints,” his early works on paper, are a groundbreaking series that launched the artist’s career. The technique…
"The Aesthetic of Cool: Kwesi Botchway, Amoako Boafo, and Otis Kwame Kye" Gallery 1957 / Accra
In the group exhibition “Homecoming: The Aesthetic of the Cool” — which presents the work of three Ghanaian portraitists, Otis…
Sandra Mujinga "Spectral Keepers" The Approach Gallery / London
The semiotics of the color green are not always immediately understandable. For all its cross-cultural signifiers — as a marker…
Wu Tsang "Visionary Company" Lafayette Anticipations / Paris
A good novel can give one a feel for an idea as if it were a flesh-and-blood person. In this…
Karolina Bielawska, Matthew Peers “Fields” Galeria Wschód / Warsaw
In this seductive two-person show, taking its cue from John Berger’s 1971 essay “Field,” two artists working in seemingly different…
"THE ARTIST IS ONLINE" König Galerie / Berlin + Decentraland
In recent years, border traffic between contemporary art and new media has done little more than inject periodic shots of…
Shota Nakamura “dear moon” Peres Projects / Berlin
Shota Nakamura’s latest works are a celebration of abundant, queer rest. Languid men lie prone in all but two of…
Luke Ching Chin Wai, “Glitch in the Matrix” Para Site / Hong Kong
One of the biggest hindrances of institutionally packaged and formatted creative work is the tension between producer and spectator —…
Eli Ping “BONE” Ramiken / New York
Lucio Fontana’s creed “Art is eternal as gesture, but not as matter” echoes throughout Eli Ping’s show “BONE” at Ramiken.…
Hulda Rós Guðnadóttir “WERK - Labor Move” Reykjavík Art Museum / Hafnarhús
It’s a fairly straightforward affair: in Hulda Rós Guðnadóttir’s exhibition at the Reykjavik Art Museum, we see a three-channel video…
Ser Serpas “Guesthouse” LC QUEISSER / Tbilisi
A haunting liquidity permeates Ser Serpas’s first solo exhibition at LC QUEISSER in Tbilisi, Georgia. Titled “Guesthouse,” it is a…
Zandile Tshabalala “Enter Paradise” ADA \ contemporary art gallery / Accra
Enter Paradise features an ensemble of ten portrait paintings, unveiling black females as central figures, in a state of rest,…
Miriam Cahn, “ME AS HAPPENING” Kunsthal Charlottenborg / Copenhagen
Miriam Cahn’s exhibition functions like a story of the self through the history one lives. The title “ME AS HAPPENING”…
Gianni Pettena “Forgiven by Nature” La Verrière-Fondation d’entreprise Hermes & ISELP / Brussels
Like Arte Povera, Radical Architecture was a movement that came about in Italy in the late 1960s, born from a…