Tega Brain Work from Coin-Operated Wetland. “Can a system of water infrastructure be a love story? What does design for mutualism rather than extraction look like? Coin-Operated Wetland invites the wetland into a domestic relationship with a laundry. And in doing so, it blurs distinctions between upstream and downstream, human and environment. By directly connecting […]

Basim Magdy Work from Someone Tried to Lock Up Time. “In the new series Someone Tried to Lock Up Time, Basim Magdy combines recognized objects of history with a poetic mysticism that invokes both alienation and a feeling of familiar complicity. The text acts like a measure of time, be it a philosophical exploration of […]

Sandra Mujinga Work from Skin to Skin at Stedelijk Museum. “Mujinga transforms the Stedelijk’s lower-level gallery into a stark, otherworldly realm with Skin to Skin. Sound, light, mirrors, and sculptures conjure an unearthly space where 55 identical figures occupy the space. Mujinga investigates concealment through multiplication. Identical at first glance, their multiplication could evoke a […]

Taryn Simon Work from An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar. “In An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar (2007), Simon compiles an inventory of what lies hidden and out-of-view within the borders of the United States. She examines a culture through the documentation of subjects from domains including: science, government, medicine, entertainment, […]

Lotus L. Kang Work from Borne at Esther Schipper, Berlin. “Lengths of unfixed industrial film, ‘skins’ as Kang refers to them, are draped over and across raw steel tubes suspended from the ceiling. The shadowy impressions on the film create layered, visceral timescales, rendered in a palette of yellow, orange, red, purple and brown. By […]

Nguyen Phuong Linh Work from Sanctified Clouds. “Almost 200 small masses of Sanctified Clouds fly over the wall, foam beautifully and shine in a blue hue, the blue of peace, Oriental ceramics, and sacred mosaic paintings in Arabic temples. However, looking closely, we realize that these soft white are not clouds, but actually the masses […]

Naraphat Sakarthornsap Work from his oeuvre. “…In many of his works, Naraphat Sakarthornsap presents stories of inequality in the society and gender discrimination through photography and installation art, in which flowers play the leading roles. Many kinds of flowers that Naraphat uses usually comes with profound meanings. Those flowers have become the keys to finding […]

Elliott Jerome Brown Jr. Work from Elliott Jerome Brown Jr. @ Nicelle Beauchene Gallery. “Elliott Jerome Brown Jr.’s new body of work explores the image as a space of ellipsis, in which works’ affective and spatial intimacies exist on the threshold of the inexpressible. In these new photographs, images sometimes seem to separate out from […]

Anna Ostoya Work from Autopis: Notes, Copies and Masterpieces. “The complexity of a lived historical reality inevitably gets simplified through representation. On this fulcrum, Ostoya’s art operates critically. She purposefully creates oppositional binaries from her source materials, manipulating history in order to show how malleable and complex (rather than predetermined and fixed) it is. This […]

Naoya Hatakeyama Work from Tsunami Trees. “Tsunami Trees, which Hatakeyama has been working on since 2018 and has culminated in a photobook in 2024, is a group of works documenting the trees and landscapes left behind on the Pacific coast that retain the traces of the tsunami. In 2017, six years after the Great East […]