In the Wait
Tarik Kiswanson’s gravity-defying sculptures imbue the brutalist interior of Bonniers Konsthall with tension – and a non-identitarian politics.
Matthew Rana
All articles by Matthew Rana
Hate the Game
Revisiting the strategic essentialisms of the 1990s, Salad Hilowle’s complacent debut at Cecilia Hillström hints at the bankruptcy of Sweden’s cultural economy.
Dance Revolution?
In their first major presentation in Sweden, the Swiss duo Pauline Boudry & Renate Lorenz ask whether clubbing can inspire a progressive political movement.
Forget Rilke
At Mint in Stockholm, an international group show offers a mind-expanding mix of erotics and poetry.
Mara Lee’s Monstrous Demand
How is love complicit in the creation of racial hierarchies? The Swedish author and scholar offers a valuable lesson.
The Politics of Bad Neighbours
Ina Blom’s new essay collection enjoins us not to affirm what makes us feel most at home, but rather to attend to our feelings of estrangement.
The Aftermath of Events
Lunds Konsthall presents Gülsün Karamustafa’s work as a response to government repression in Turkey.
Critic on the Loose
Karl Katz Lydén’s new book falls short of its lofty aim to break the barrier between art and society.
Bad Contemporaneity
Sianne Ngai explains why art needs to embrace error in a world that is wrong.
Diffuse Autobiography
Returning to her childhood home town, Fatima Moallim’s exhibition at Växjö Konsthall invites us to reflect on today’s appetite for identity and difference.
Mudbound
In Lytle Shaw’s New Grounds for Dutch Landscape the materialist turn is transformed into an art historical account of everyday ongoingness and the ground beneath our feet.
The Language of Shamans
The exhibition Worst-Case Scenario: Four Artists From Greenland at Lund’s Konsthall puts notions of authenticity and identity under ironic and questioning stress.
