A Fugitive Vocabulary
A founding member of Chilean conceptualist group CADA in the 1980s, Juan Castillo insists on art’s social function as a means toward collective liberation.
Matthew Rana
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Bubble-sculpture
Mexican artist Damián Ortega’s exhibition at Malmö Konsthall is a worrying signal of the populist, for-all approach currently besieging many contemporary art institutions.
There Is a Need to Counter Identitarianism
Nav Haq has been appointed curator of the 9th Gothenburg Biennial, which will deal with the topic of secularism in Europe.
An Expedient Sculpture
Reinstalled in a former limestone pit outside Malmö, Mike Nelson’s concrete sculpture produced for Malmö Konsthall in 2012, is left with a tenuous relationship to its site.
Painting’s Seventh Seal
For Heimo Zobernig, there is no existential drama to play out during painting’s inexorable march toward death.
Ghosts Demand Justice
Jane Jin Kaisen’s exhibition at IAC in Malmö suggests the impossibility of representing Korea’s traumatic past, but argues for the necessity of recording its effects.
Trickster Makes Offshore
The mystery novel Headless is the culmination of artist duo Goldin + Senneby’s evasive – perhaps cynical – inquiry into the world of offshore capital.
A Comedy of Exchange
Runo Lagomarsino and Carla Zaccagnini’s exhibition at Malmö konsthall follows a comedic logic of displacement, but the result is mostly confined within the expected.
