Precarious Workout
Thinking with Simone Weil and Thomas Hirschhorn, precariousness and fragmentation emerge as forces that reshape ideas of power, monuments, and art’s role in our troubled present.
Francesca Astesani
All articles by Francesca Astesani
Sugar Tears
In highly ornamented pieces that seduce the eye, Ebony G. Patterson touches deep colonial wounds and stresses the need to discuss them – without ending up in a muddle.
Owning Your Holes
Miriam Cahn summons real and timely struggles in a powerful show composed in the language of dreams.
Tales of In-betweens
Abandonment and ghostly presences dominate Jane Jin Kaisen’s body of work and an exhibition that, despite compelling narratives, longs for rhythm and surprise.
The World Is an Open Wound
In a disconcerting body of work, Steve McQueen makes our eyes sore from the world’s pain.
In the Depths of Figuration
Per Kirkeby’s bronze sculptures mould struggles with the paradoxes of representation into a theology of total incarnation.
