“Kingdom of the Ill” Museion / Bolzano
Illness is life-adjacent, a consensus we ought to have reached during the pandemic. Regardless, as Susan Sontag argued, illness is…
Reviews
Beatrice Gibson “Dream Gossip” Ordet / Milan
On high ground overlooking Paris, poet Alice Notley reads the words, “I stand here in whose eyes / the name…
Tschabalala Self “Make Room” Le Consortium / Dijon
The exhibition “Make Room” opens with a work titled Hysteria (2022) — featuring a cubist-faced figure wearing a striped-and-polka-dotted dress…
Simon Dybbroe Møller “What Do People Do All Day / Boulevard of Crime” Francesca Minini / Milan
Talk about overproduction. With “What Do People Do All Day” and “Boulevard of Crime” Simon Dybbroe Møller doubles down and…
“Slip.Stream.Slip” Modal Gallery / Manchester
Highlighting the ubiquitous use of game-engine technologies in contemporary media and information systems, Modal Gallery’s inaugural exhibition “Slip.Stream.Slip” offers an…
Judith Hopf “Energies” Le Plateau/FRAC Île-de-France & Bétonsalon
I have already had occasion to write a few words about Judith Hopf’s double exhibition “Energies” in my round up…
Myriam Mihindou “Épiderme” La Verrière / Brussels
The feeling is diffuse. One has the impression of entering a space in the middle of an exhibition setup. There…
N. Dash “earth” S.M.A.K. Museum for Contemporary Art / Gent
Even before entering her show, one perceives the importance the artist gives to the details that surround it: a sign…
Austin Martin White "Last Dance" Capitain Petzel / Berlin
Like coexisting layers of history, the works of Austin Martin White superimpose figure, ground, and ghostly apparitions. In the lofty…
Juliana Huxtable “AKIMBO SPITTLE” Project Native Informant / London
Even in description there is a kind of consumption; it is, in part, an inevitable fate for a review: to…
Sturtevant “Dialectic of Distance” Thaddaeus Ropac / London
It is hard not to draw connections between the sense of confusion, claustrophobia, and scarcity created by two Sturtevant (1924–2014)…
Bianca Hlywa “Residual Yeast” Gossamer Fog / London
When I spoke with Bianca Hlywa on Zoom for the first time, I had not yet seen her exhibition “Residual…
Danielle Orchard “Page Turner” Perrotin / Paris
“There’s a lot of reciprocity between my lived life and my painting life,” Danielle Orchard notes, surveying her canvases at…
Keren Cytter "Bad Words" Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst / Aachen
Ooh, we know some bad words, don’t we? We don’t get to know exactly which bad words the artist is…
Marie Cool Fabio Balducci “Dai campi all’elica” MCBA Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts / Lausanne
For Marie Cool Fabio Balducci, the exhibition is a test. When they mount an exhibition in the institutional spaces of…
Anna Franceschini “Il salotto cattivo” Campoli Presti / Paris
“Please accommodate and excuse the mess,” whispers Anna Franceschini in the heart of Paris, referring to the back cover of…