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Thao Nguyen Phan’s Mythic Counterhistories
by Adela Lovric // Dec. 22, 2023
At Pirelli HangarBicocca’s cavernous, industrial exhibition space, Thao Nguyen Phan’s works—videos, installations, drawings and paintings—bring a certain poetic softness…[read on]
Rendering Goddesses: An Interview with Bassam Issa Al-Sabah
by Aoife Donnellan // Dec. 12, 2023
Bassam Issa Al-Sabah’s latest work, ‘Uncensored Lilac’ (2023), is an exhibition collaboration between Issa Al-Sabah and Jennifer Mehigan as part of transmediale’s 2024 festival…[read on]
Pleasure and Liberation: ‘The Laugh of the Medusa’ at EKKM Tallinn
by Lorna McDowell // Dec. 5, 2023
In an act of reclaiming these myths of the past that still live and breathe today, the group exhibition ‘The Laugh of the Medusa’ at EKKM in Tallinn, Estonia, takes its title from a…[read on]
Afrofuturist Techno Myths: An Interview with DeForrest Brown Jr.
by Berlin Art Link // Dec. 1, 2023
We reached out to DeForrest Brown Jr. to learn more about his contribution and personal connection to the show, the myths surrounding the origins of techno as well as how…[read on]
The Trembling Procession: An Interview with Phoebe Collings-James
by Nat Marcus // Nov. 28, 2023
Phoebe Collings-James’ most recent exhibition of ceramics at Arcadia Missa, ‘bun babylon; a heretics anthology,’ is animated with a lineage of Caribbean spiritual and political resistance…[read on]
Archaic Sensibility: An Interview with Mary Reid & Patrick Kelley
by William Kherbek // Nov. 24, 2023
Mary Reid Kelley is an artist concerned with myths, both sacred and profane. The ‘Minotaur Trilogy’—realised in collaboration with her partner, Patrick Kelley—is their most sustained…[read on]
Collective History: Chiara Bersani’s Haptic Mythology
by Aoife Donnellan // Nov. 14, 2023
‘Deserters’ (2023) at Kunsthaus Baselland is a live installation by Italian artist Chiara Bersani, that uses tapestry, performance and textile works to recentre bodies with disabilities…[read on]
Letter from the Editor: Myth
by Alison Hugill // Nov. 3, 2023
With this new topic, we are looking at the ways in which artists are reclaiming mythology and engaging in new and complex processes of myth-making, world-building and fictioning…[read on]
