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Saelan Twerdy

Saelan Twerdy is a writer, editor, and cultural worker living in Tiohtià:ke/Montréal. He is currently the Managing Editor of RACAR, the official journal of the Universities Art Association of Canada (UAAC), and is pursuing an MLIS degree at McGill University.

Reviews• February 9, 2016

The Sadean Woman: Tricia Middleton and the Violence of Art

By Saelan Twerdy

Tricia Middleton came late to showing in commercial galleries. In a career spanning fifteen years, her late-2014 exhibition at Jessica Bradley Gallery in Toronto…

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Reviews• July 9, 2015

This Is Where It Ends: The Denouement of Post-Internet Art in Jon Rafman’s Deep Web

By Saelan Twerdy

In a recent essay for Artforum, Jon Rafman described his early work as “romantic.” Specifically, he cited his virtual safaris of Kool-Aid Man in…

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Reviews• March 17, 2015

Aiming to Please: Division Gallery Surveys Post-Internet Entertainment

By Saelan Twerdy

In the year 2000, curator Phillippe Vergne staged an exhibition at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis titled Let’s Entertain: Life’s Guilty Pleasures. It…

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Reviews• February 16, 2015

Bad Dream of the Bauhaus: Juan Ortiz-Apuy’s IKEA Fantasia

By Saelan Twerdy

Entering Juan Ortiz-Apuy’s Out of This Light, Into this Shadow, his second solo exhibition at galerie antoine ertaskiran, the first thing that strikes me…

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Features• December 31, 2014

Year in Review: Montreal From the Ground Up

By Saelan Twerdy

A principal difference between year-end lists, rankings, and recollections about art, and those about music, books, or films is that it’s much more difficult…

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Reviews• December 29, 2014

Playing the Double Agent: Kathleen Ritter’s “Camoufleurs”

By Saelan Twerdy

Kathleen Ritter is an artist. This may come as a surprise to some who knew her better as associate curator at the Vancouver Art…

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Reviews• November 10, 2014

Future Forecast: The Montreal Biennale 2014

By Saelan Twerdy

The Montreal Biennale is at once a new institution and an old one. Last year, the previous iteration of the Biennale (independently operated since…

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Features• November 3, 2014

A Theory of Everything: On The State of Theory and Criticism (Part Two)

By Saelan Twerdy

Continued from “A Theory of Everything: On the State of Theory and Criticism (Part One)” Looking at Towards an Anthropology of Influence, it’s possible to see…

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Features• October 30, 2014

A Theory of Everything: On the State of Theory and Criticism (Part One)

By Saelan Twerdy

Given that I’ve chosen to contribute to a platform that boasts “a return to art criticism,” it would be worth considering what that might…

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Reviews• October 15, 2014

How Curating Took Over the World: David Balzer’s Game-Changing “Curationism”

By Saelan Twerdy

No doubt you’ve noticed it: from museums to film festivals, boutiques to restaurants, and basically everywhere on the internet, people are curating. Once the…

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