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Against the Wellness Binary: ‘Ultrasanity’ at Savvy Contemporary
Article by Diane Barbé // Jan. 17, 2020
Walking down the flight of stairs that leads to SAVVY Contemporary, the voice of a woman emanates from inside. She is telling a story, in English, about a man who is looking for a mouse…[read on]
Unmasking the Sleep Industry: An Interview with Yuri Pattison
Interview by William Kherbek // Jan. 10, 2020
Pattison has recently explored the ways in which robotic management of data has played a role in aspects of wellness from managing sleep cycles to examining and assessing health information from app users…[read on]
Heba Y. Amin
by Faye Campbell // Dec. 20, 2019
Heba Y. Amin is a creator, but also a recycler, reaching into the depths of history to extract snippets—images and moments—and repurposing them…[read on]
Decolonial Reality: An Interview with Bouchra Khalili
Interview by Jack Radley // Dec. 17, 2019
Moroccan-born, Berlin-based artist Bouchra Khalili never centers herself in her narrative work. Instead, she collaborates with individuals to radically rethink our understanding of the complex…[read on]
Considering the Counter-Colonial Gaze: ‘Spectral White’ at HKW
Article by Martha Lochhead // Dec. 16, 2019
‘Spectral White’ at the HKW assesses how Europeans may have been depicted in the art of the colonized. The exhibition offers an incomplete reconstruction of ethnologist Julius Lips’…[read on]
Unsolvable Equations: Kameelah Janan Rasheed at NOME
Article by April Dell // Dec. 11, 2019
“Are we there yet?” asks a carved relief in the gallery wall. “There” in Kameelah Janan Rasheed’s exhibition ‘A Casual Mathematics’ can be found between the lines of her poetic…[read on]
The European Shipwreck: An Interview with Priscila Rezende
Interview by Alison Hugill // Dec. 06, 2019
Priscila Rezende presented the German premier of her performance ‘Nau Frágil’ at Ballhaus Naunynstraße this week, as part of the festival ‘Postcolonial Poly Perspectives’…[read on]
Between Opacity and Transparency: Wu Tsang at Gropius Bau
Article by Ilyn Wong // Nov. 29, 2019
‘There is no non-violent way to look at somebody,’ an exhibition of film, sculpture, text and sound by artist and filmmaker Wu Tsang…[read on]
‘And You, Why Are You Black?’: An Interview with Rubén H. Bermúdez
Article by Juan José Santos Mateo // Nov. 22, 2019
The creator Rubén H. Bermúdez caught the attention of a system that was strange to him—contemporary art—thanks to his 2018 photo book ‘And You, Why Are You Black?’…[read on]
‘Love and Ethnology’: A Dangerous Cocktail at HKW
Article by William Kherbek // Nov. 19, 2019
The latest iteration of the exhibition series ‘Love and Ethnology’ at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt is rooted in the intellectual project of the German writer Hubert Fichte…[read on]
No Toxic is an Island: ‘The Long Term You Cannot Afford’ at SAVVY Contemporary
Article by Denisa Tomkova // Nov. 15, 2019
The exhibition ‘The Long Term You Cannot Afford. On the Distribution of the Toxic’ at SAVVY Contemporary uncovers the different forms and meanings of the toxic…[read on]