Morag Keil Institute of Contemporary Arts / London
Morag Keil’s practice is ouroboric: self-referring, self-erasing, self-consuming, regurgitating. Glazed duffel bags and rucksacks slump like prolapsed black guts: damp,…
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Raphaela Vogel Berlinische Galerie / Berlin
How much control do we really have over who sees us, how, and when? Known for her video sculptures, which…
The Main Complaint Zeitz MOCAA / Cape Town
Zeitz MOCAA opened in September 2017 to rave architectural reviews and a barrage of institutional critique. Like a used-car salesperson…
Taipei Biennial 2018 Post-Nature / A Museum as an Ecosystem
Spearheaded by what is essentially a collaborative duo, Italian curator Francesco Manacorda and Taiwanese artist Mali Wu, the eleventh edition…
Kayode Ojo Martos Gallery / New York
In his recent sculpture and photographic works, Kayode Ojo ruminates on the contemporaneous nature of consumer desire and social performativity.…
B. Wurtz Institute of Contemporary Art / Los Angeles
For the past twenty-five years, B. Wurtz has been applying acrylic paint to the bottoms of aluminum pans in order…
Biennale de l’Image en Mouvement 2018 Centre d’Art Contemporain / Geneva
A few days before the opening of the Biennale de l’Image en Mouvement in Geneva in November 2018, I came…
Grace Wales Bonner: A Time for New Dreams Serpentine Galleries / London
The incursion of fashion designers into other creative realms frequently invokes dismissiveness or derision, especially when the designer is young.…
Caitlin Keogh The Approach / London
Fitting with the artist’s background in technical fashion drawing, Caitlin Keogh’s paintings are done in a delicious palette of mauve,…
Aria Dean Chateau Shatto / Los Angeles
Perhaps it is because you are on the tenth floor — high above the bustle, hot dog vendors, flashing toddler…
Urban Zellweger Kunstverein Nürnberg / Nuremberg
It is true: the grass is always greener on the other side. But the question remains: Just what is it,…
Terence Koh Office Baroque / Brussels
For his exhibition “Drummen” at Office Baroque, Terence Koh covered the floor of the gallery in soil, and placed eighty-eight…
Maia Ruth Lee Jack Hanley Gallery / New York
It doesn’t take a native speaker to know there’s something amiss in Maia Ruth Lee’s new film The Stranger (all…
!Mediengruppe Bitnik Super Dakota / Brussels
Back in 2015, Super Dakota’s exhibition “.GIF” highlighted the creative and artistic potential of the Graphics Interchange Format, a bitmap…
Everything Is Connected: Art and Conspiracy The Met Breuer / New York
Conspiracy has always existed, but it inundated the mainstream in the US only after the Second World War. Its rise…
Helen Cammock Void Gallery / Derry
The work of Helen Cammock (b. 1970, London) revolves around a specific undertaking: “encouraging the return of the repressed,” to…