The Persistent Present. Yalda Afsah
The history of cinema is, as Mary Ann Doane meticulously outlines in her book The Emergence of Cinematic Time[1] (2002),…
Amy Jones
Taking Flight. Lotus L. Kang
“A trembling dissolution filled the birds — The substance of their being was undone, And they were lost like shade…
Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme, “Prisoners of Love: Until the Sun of Freedom” / Nottingham Contemporary
On Monday, October 13, 2025, just a few days after I visited Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme’s multimedia installation Prisoners…
Fog Work. A Conversation with Daiga Grantina
Daiga Grantina’s 2020 exhibition, “What Eats Around Itself,” at New Museum in New York — my first encounter with her…
Echoes in the Garden: Marina Xenofontos
Other echoes Inhabit the garden. Shall we follow? — T. S. Eliot, “Burnt Norton” (1936) A beat bounces off a…
Thoughts of Elsewhere
“The successful negotiation of holes is dependent on maintaining a healthy respect for what cannot be seen.” – Pope. L…