Mining Hollywood filmic archetypes and the cult of masculinity, Jen DeNike presents a series of three vignettes that challenge static notions of gender, race and sexuality. Taking the exhibition name from Chester Himes’ 1945 novel If He Hollers, Let Him Go, DeNike traces the motivations of Himes’ protagonist who fails to find a more tolerant…
Amnesia decides is made by a duo: Noemi Niederhauser & Hélène Combal-Weiss. With on one side, a mix media based practice concerned with archiving and the interpretation/ misinterpretation of artifacts, and on the other side an exploration of experimental materials and video in the design process. They meet in the creation of disruptive narratives by…
For En Plein Air, Pascual Sisto has sampled the organic occurring markings native to a peculiar household plant commonly known as the spotted laurel or gold dust laurel (Aucuba Japonica ‘Variegata’); a plant variety that has been produced in strict cultivation by selective breeding. This sampling has occurred not once or twice but multiple times…
Guy Yanai’s paintings capture a visual culture somewhere between modern art and Tumblr, and take form in thick, paradise-hued brushstrokes. The works live where past and present meet, carving contemporary imagery into the historical timeline of painting, yet at first glance appearing uncannily evocative of 8-bit computer graphics of the 80s. This self-conscious relation with…
Tianzhuo CHEN, Long March Space Gallery Time: today I’m not going to speak about prices or the successes or failures of the market. I’m mainly interested in looking at this show. I’m interested in individual works and their content as well as their relationship to society in both more intimate and general terms. What is…
“The ruling ideology today is basically something like a vague hedonism with a Buddhist touch” – Slavoj Žižek ANXIETY SOCIAL CLUB follows up Kessler’s exhibitions Land Lords at MonCHÉRI, Brussels (2015), and Finally Every Dimension of the Soil at American Medium, New York (2015). Abstract, anti-romantic notions of revolution and chaos in both society and…
Anat Ebgi Gallery presents the exhibition Catfish, a group show featuring Petra Cortright, Kate Steciw, Letha Wilson and Margo Wolowiec. Composed of digital paintings, collages and sculptures, the four artists utilize varying kinds of mutable imagery–drawn from stock photography websites, social media and landscapes–as a representational vocabulary that intersects with physical presence. Taking its name…
“Just because they don’t do what we do it doesn’t mean it’s wrong” is a group exhibition at The Gallery Wrong Weather in Oporto that brings together the work of Manuel Forte, Pedro Matos and Ricardo Passaporte. An informed perception and understanding of the urban landscape and its inherent complexity is the common ground that…
Transmitted through centuries, there is little defense we have against them. They created laughter where there should have been crying; babies born every day laughing. They formed a grim model of hunger, systematically releasing us into the animal world one by one only to alienate us from our furry friends by programming a deep collective…
