Finite Jest’ at Sophiensaele by Alice Heyward // Mar. 23, 2026. What’s worse than the insincerity of comedy as a response to ...
NOW! Korean Video Art Today’ at MASI Lugano by Carolina Sculti // Mar. 20, 2026. Overlooking Lake Lugano in Switzerland, the ...
It is an ethereal constellation of floating forms and a continuation of a motif (the cloud) that South African artist Igshaan ...
An Interview with William Joys by William Kherbek // Mar. 17, 2026. This article is part of our feature topic Abjection.
This article is part of our feature topic Abjection. Abjection often conjures images of horror—filth, ugliness, death—in their most visceral, corporeal form. Yet what we tend to neglect are abject ...
This article is part of our feature topic Abjection. French feminist philosopher Julia Kristeva opens her 1980 essay on abjection, entitled ‘Powers of Horrors,’ as follows: “There looms, within ...
The opening image of Graciela Iturbide’s retrospective ‘Eyes to Fly With’ at C/O Berlin is a poetic visualization of the title itself. It features a self-portrait of the artist holding two dead birds ...
Gore, slapstick, political commentary and impromptu dance all find their way into Indonesian director Joko Anwar’s new feature film, ‘Ghost in the Cell’ (Hantu Dalam Penjara). Anwar’s 12th film, but ...
Our suffering amidst the trash heap of contemporary life often feels sealed and inevitable. As Michael Marder says, our alienation is being alienated. Countering the passive consumption of today’s ...
Dörte Eißfeldt’s photography is grounded in the experience of seeing: a relational seeing that holds in view not only the self and the world, but also the photographic object itself, which can act as ...
This article is part of our feature topic Wellness. Tabita Rezaire’s art practice has explored the ways in which healing and the longing for healing define the human experience. Her works are ...
Downstairs, in the darkened basement of Capitain Petzel, a frantic monologue rattles from a disembodied mouth. “The brain!” Mouth yells, “…flickering away ...