The Remains of the Day: Nadia Belerique in Glasgow
In between visits to Nadia Belerique’s exhibition, SLICE, at David Dale Gallery in Glasgow, I’d been engaged in moving flats for the first time…
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Duplicity and Diptychs: The Maraya Project’s Twinned Visions of Complicity
The similarities between the seawall in Vancouver and the seawall in Dubai are eerie. You might not think to compare them unless you have…
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Relocating Trauma at the Venice Biennale
During my visit to the 59th Venice Biennale, I found myself in the Venetian ghetto twice. The first was to celebrate Shabbat with an…
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Against Nations
At the 59th Venice Biennale, many of the stand-out pavilions were those that contested the pavilion structure itself. Consider Roma artist Małgorzata Mirga-Tas’s lustrous…
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Wayne Salmon’s Portraits of Black Belonging in Kensington Market
In Kensington Market: Meditations on Home, photographer Wayne Salmon continues his decades-long rumination on the beauty of Black life within the wake of slavery….
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Where Do Dreams Live?
In Misdemeanor Dream, a new play presented at La MaMa by the performance collective Spiderwoman Theater, earlier this spring, Indigenous fairies sing, dance, tell…
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Mimi Ọnụọha: Making Data Matter
Data is often thought of as immaterial, floating in the digital sphere, and evasive. It slips away from our fingertips as we scroll, like,…
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A Lapidary Grief: Sheila Heti’s “Pure Colour” Dares Her Critics
Sheila Heti’s most recent novel, Pure Colour, is a dream-like, funny, soulful, hard-to-wrangle meditation on what it means to live as someone else’s creation,…
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An Ascetic Pose: Avery Singer’s New Refusal
Before I saw Avery Singer’s paintings in Reality Ender, her first solo show at Hauser & Wirth in New York, I didn’t think it…
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Plague Medicine: Reading Avocado Ibuprofen in a Pandemic
Over the last several years, Jaakko Pallasvuo’s Instagram comics (produced under the handle @avocado_ibuprofen) have become a minor phenomenon. Beloved among art world participants,…
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