Her Sex and Her Medium Exploded: Coming to Terms with Pipilotti Rist
A woman strides down the sidewalk in anarchic ecstasy, smashing one car window after another with an oversized red flower. The sound of glass…
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Grieving in L.A.
My first trip to Los Angeles started ten days after an election that diminished our assurance in something like a common good. I booked…
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The Material Undoings of Kelly Lycan
During a month of dispiriting world news, the work first struck me as a room in mourning: an emptiness indifferent to being filled. White…
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“If I Ventured in the Slipstream”: Tamara Henderson’s Nomadic Encampment at REDCAT
If I ventured in the slipstream Between the viaducts of your dream Where immobile steel rims crack And the ditch in the back roads…
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An Allegory for an Absconded Modernity: Claudio Correa’s Brigantine Signals Chile’s Speculative Present
Physically light, Libertad, Igualdad, Fatalidad (2016) is not underweight on ambition or conceptual ballast. Its creator, Chilean artist Claudio Correa, installed a real-scale brigantine…
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Ways of Seeing John Berger, in Two Recent Documentaries
“It’s in hell where solidarity is important, not in heaven.” – John Berger, Seasons in Quincy Media veracity, it seems clear, has dissolved into…
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Isa Genzken Plays with the Artworld’s Insides in “I Love Michael Asher”
“And why is this dedicated to Michael Jackson?” journalist Randy Kennedy asked Isa Genzken last February as both sat on a stage at the…
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Sara Cwynar Prepares Herself to Turn
Sara Cwynar is just young enough to speak the mother-tongue of post-photography. Certainly her work assumes the dimensionality of an exploded medium and exercises…
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Acting Out: The Visibility of Blackness in the Work of Martine Syms
Hair flicks, flirtatious glances, side eye. Hands beckoning and clapping, a finger wagging in rebuke. Body language is highlighted in Borrowed Lady, an exhibition…
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Morbid Symptoms: In Search of the Post-Contemporary at the 2016 Montreal Biennial
In the aftermath of Donald Trump’s nauseating election victory, hard on the heels of this year’s earlier Brexit vote in the UK, it has…
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