Article by Penny Rafferty in Berlin // Jun. 09, 2017
documenta 14 will open its doors for the second time this year, in Kassel on June 10th, under less than glowing reviews. After the first segment opened on April 8th in Athens, the exhibition has…[read on]
Article by Penny Rafferty in Berlin // Apr. 17, 2017
Isaac Penn is a fibre artist, textile designer and clothier originally from Canada but now based in Berlin. Penn’s pixelated weaves slow down time. Penn uses an array of images, all familiar in our daily visual…[read on]
Article by Penny Rafferty in Berlin // Mar. 21, 2017
Lena Henke’s contemporary sculptures solicit masculine compositions from Brutalism to Surrealism to Freudian theory. Yet Henke floods, drowns and ignites a fierce femininity in…[read on]
Article by Penny Rafferty in Berlin // Jan. 04, 2017
Canadian artist Char Davies pioneered the genre now known as immersive virtual reality (VR) in the 1990s. Davies built the famous ‘Osmose’ (1995), a fully immersive artwork that changed the role of the user in radical…[read on]
Article by Penny Rafferty in Berlin // Oct. 17, 2016
Light regulates us. It allows us to understand the passage of time; we see light as energy indicating a life force. Brenna Murphy transforms light into pixels. Her works may never live in our own atmosphere but our eyes…[read on]
Article by Penny Rafferty // Aug. 26, 2016
Pastel-hued breasts, hair etched into painted canvases, stealth desert snakes and over-sized hands melt seamlessly together. A sex-conjoined animal and human in a lucid dream-like state are some…[read on]
Article by Penny Rafferty // July 18, 2016
Jean-Francois Lyotard’s 1977 text ‘Energumen Capitalism’ sets an abstract stage from which to view ‘Inflected Objects # 2 Circulation – Otherwise, Unhinged’. The exhibition is curated by Melanie Buehler,…[read on]
Article by Penny Rafferty // June 04, 2016
When we think of the future we are often draw to images of white, anarcho-capitalist machinery, our only lifeline a Soylent drip three times a day. But what if our future wasn’t so far away? In fact, what if…[read on]
Interview by Penny Rafferty // May 10, 2016
Lawrence Lek’s highly rendered architectural worlds create impossible possibilities, through zoomed out narratives and virtual constructs. In his recent contribution to the Secret Surfaces exhibition at KW…[read on]
Interview by Penny Rafferty // Apr. 06, 2016
The body in art has always been a contested issue as far as representation, but it is also central to how we understand our identities today through gender, race, sexuality and ethnicity. People use the body as a…[read on]
Interview by Penny Rafferty, Photos by Ériver Hijano – in Berlin; Tuesday, Mar. 15, 2016.
Interview by Penny Rafferty – in Berlin; Monday, Feb. 29, 2015.
