Azza El Siddique Summons Life Beyond Death
Sometimes called an alchemist, Azza El Siddique treats the act of making as just the beginning of a process that the artwork carries on….
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“I Wish We Could Reach for New Language”: An Interview with Sky Goodden
Sky Goodden is the founding publisher and editor of Momus, an online art publication based in Canada. Since its founding in 2014 Momus has…
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See You on the Other Side: Matthew Wong’s Vistas of the Mind
In Matthew Wong’s oil painting See You On the Other Side (2019), a figure in blue stands at the edge of a frozen landscape…
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Wire and String: Olga Balema’s Sinewy Abjection
What does it mean when the most meaningful thing is damn near nothing at all? Not the antiseptic nothing of Marie Kondo’s puritan minimalism,…
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A Shattered Mirror: Geoffrey Farmer’s Disobedient Object in Venice
The Canadian Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale has been partially destroyed. Its roof has been punctured, so it seems, by some inexplicable disaster….
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“All Awareness Becomes Base”: Jens Hoffmann’s Reduction of The Arcades Project
“What, then, is the aura? A strange tissue of space and time: the unique apparition of a distance, however near it may be. To…
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With the Logic of Vegas, the Seduction of Art: Hadar Kleiman’s Cheap Desirability in San Francisco
Hadar Kleiman’s brainy, seductive solo show at R/SF Projects in San Francisco reproduces sites of pure consumerism in a playful, complicit kind of late-capitalist…
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Romancing the Stone: Three Berlin Exhibitions Commune with the Ancients
The past vexes us. Longing to feel connected to it, those with money tour the world’s ancient ruins searching antediluvian kin. Meanwhile in Eurocentric contemporary…
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The Politics of Color in Kristine Moran
It’s tempting to consider Kristine Moran’s most recent work as a pivot-point in an ascendency from abstraction to figuration. Figures, indeed, are emerging from…
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Emergence and Ruin in Carol Wainio
Carol Wainio is a wonderful and troubling painter. For decades, a constant inventiveness in the ways of handling paint, of creating figures and spaces, has…
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