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Conflictual Topographies in Rosa Barba’s Film Installations
Article by Hannah Carroll Harris // Apr. 28, 2020
To encounter Rosa Barba’s expansive filmic installations in the flesh is to experience an expert unravelling of the documentary format and a rethinking of how we bear witness…[read on]
Gut-Machine Poetry: An Interview with Jenna Sutela
Interview by William Kherbek // Apr. 17, 2020
Jenna Sutela’s art has concentrated on the ways various microorganisms experience and impact the biosphere. From the poetic output of a bacteria colony used to power a computer to the creation of a pseudo-language…[read on]
Systems of Care: An Interview with Michael Wang
Interview by Jack Radley // Apr. 10, 2020
Michael Wang unearths the intertwined roots of plant, animal and human histories. Working between his upstate New York studio and his Governors Island residency, Wang traces…[read on]
Hybrid Perspectives: An Interview with Bianca Kennedy and The Swan Collective
Interview by Vanessa Souli // Apr. 03, 2020
In her work, Bianca Kennedy focuses on the body in its wider social, political, philosophical and artistic aspects. In collaboration with The Swan Collective, she has embarked on the creation of works of a…[read on]
Art in the Time of Corona: A Solitary Encounter with Daniel Steegman Mangrané’s ‘Fog Dog’
Article by Dagmara Genda // Mar. 27, 2020
It could be cynical to say that Daniel Steegman Mangrané should consider himself lucky for the chain of events that have made ‘Fog Dog’ at Esther Schipper even more alienating, uncanny and strange…[read on]
Terrestrial Symbiosis: Richard Mosse’s ‘Ultra’ at carlier | gebauer
Article by Hannah Carroll Harris // Mar. 20, 2020
Exceptionally detailed, minuscule rainforest lichen, soft fuzzy moss and extraterrestrial orchid forms inhabit the hyper-real world of Richard Mosse’s latest body of work ‘Ultra’…[read on]
Roundup-Ready: Kirsten Stolle’s ‘Pesticide Pop’ at NOME
Article by William Kherbek // Mar. 13, 2020
It’s a story I’ve heard several times now: a friend does a road trip in America and remarks that, compared with previous visits, they noticed almost no insects splattering across their windshields out on the road…[read on]
Through a Glass, Darkly: ‘A Year Without the Southern Sun’ at Galerie XC-HuA
Article by Michelle Standley // Mar. 06, 2020
We don’t need to interpret the words of the Oracle of Delphi. We know what the future holds. Climate change is no longer an empty threat; it’s the promise of an end to the world as we know it…[read on]
Future Archeology: ‘Winter North Summer South’ at Times Art Center
Article by Hannah Carroll Harris // Mar. 03, 2020
Sweeping barren landscapes, fields of frozen grassland, billowing dust clouds and the jarring cohabitation of disparate species cumulatively stand out against the concrete, bunker-like space of…[read on]
The Year of Black Healing: An Interview with Grace Ndiritu
Interview by Juan José Santos Mateo // Feb. 28, 2020
They moved the headstones, but not the bodies. The Africa Museum, located in Tervuren, Belgium, is like the ‘Poltergeist’ House. The original idea of the museum came from Leopold II—King of Belgium and owner of…[read on]
Over-Determining the Artist: ‘Love, Ren Hang’ at C/O Berlin
Article by Jacob Zhicheng Zhang // Feb. 18, 2020
When an artist passes away, especially after a heart-wrenching event like suicide, how should a posthumous retrospective represent their work?…[read on]