Intimate Dislocations: On Lydia Ourahmane’s Barzakh
“Allow me, then, as we part company at this threshold [barzakh], to break the contract between one absurdity and another.”1…
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"I GOT UP" Hot Wheels / Athens
Four identical postcards displayed in the gallery’s entryway bear the stamped, enigmatic phrase “I GOT UP AT,” followed by the…
Tarek Atoui "Waters' Witness" Fridericianum / Kassel
A metallic clamor pulses across an arrangement of marble blocks, steel beams, cables, and handmade musical instruments, before a rustling…
Post-Catastrophic Romance: On Neïl Beloufa’s www.screen-talk.com
For more than a decade, Neïl Beloufa has produced a vast array of films and installations that propel viewers into…
Rochelle Goldberg “Psychomachia” Miguel Abreu Gallery / New York
Wild lilies, sand, sourdough bread, tuna cans, gold, eye shadow, desert dirt: these are among the distinctive materials that Rochelle…
“In Practice: Total Disbelief” SculptureCenter / New York
What is at stake when doubt is our primary stance toward the world? “In Practice: Total Disbelief” at SculptureCenter stages…
Irena Haiduk Swiss Institute / New York
Irena Haiduk’s “REMASTER” was inaugurated by the circulation of five hundred keys, which physically open an exhibition that otherwise remains…
Elaine Cameron-Weir JTT / New York
In Elaine Cameron-Weir’s “strings that show the wind,” three sets of paired sculptures stand, as if halted mid-procession, atop an…
Alex Ayed B7L9 / Tunis
From the garden behind the gallery, Alex Ayed summons a flock of pigeons that obediently shuffles its way into the…
Whitney Biennial 2019 Whitney Museum of American Art / New York
The Whitney Biennial has historically been an occasion for artistic protest and institutional critique, and this year’s iteration proved to…
CRACK UP – CRACK DOWN 33rd Ljubljana Biennial
What is the place of comedy in a groundless world? Amid the volatility of contemporary society, where claims of truth,…
Lydia Ourahmane Bodega / New York
Lydia Ourahmane’s exhibition “low relief” at Bodega is comprised of a set of sculptures that suggest an emergence of the…
Aslı Çavuşoğlu New Museum / New York
Aslı Çavuşoğlu’s first US solo museum exhibition culminates in an immense blue fresco that subsumes the New Museum’s lobby gallery.…