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FUTURE CONSTRUCTS
Issue 123 - Collective Energy
Feb/Mar 2025I chat with curator, Elona Lubytė, about Imagining the Future, the first major exhibition in France and Europe of the late pioneer Aleksandra Kasuba at Carré d'Art, Nîmes. Kasuba is known for her multidisciplinary practice on the threshold of design, architecture and experimental art. She was a visionary of the 20th century space exploration era, and this retrospective is constructed as a bright, inspiring narrative about loss and possibility.
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PATHS TO ABSTRACTION
Issue 122 - Here and Now
Dec/Jan 2024-5Photographer Daniela Droz’s latest exhibition Interferenz at Fotostiftung Schweiz reminds us of the transformative power of storytelling. She uses vibrant artistry to weave narratives that celebrate identity and culture.
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SPATIALLY RESPONSIVE
Issue 121 - Intersections
Oct/Nov 2024Cerith Wyn Evans’ new show Borrowed Light Through Metz, brings together light and sound work to create a visual and aural effect. For nearly 40 years, the artist has explored the limits of perception, and, in the process, called into question the conventions of exhibition-making
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GENRES INTERTWINE
Issue 120 - Undefined
Aug/Sep 2024This issue celebrates humanity’s creative impulse. Anthony McCall’s Solid Light opened this summer at Tate Modern, reviewed here alongside the artist's wider career. McCall is known for genre-bending installations that occupy a space between sculpture, cinema, drawing and performance. In 1973, his seminal work Line Describing a Cone redefined the possibilities of sculpture.
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INTAKE OF BREATH
Issue 119 - Into Focus
Jun/July 2024Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński is one of the artists featured in Take a Breath, a major new exhibition in Dublin that tracks the impact of air pollution, from industrialisation to modern-day wars, and how it effects our surroundings, health and the way we live. The show considers the historical, social, political and personal acts of breathing; why we breathe, where we breathe and what we breathe.
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Memory Illuminated
Issue 118 - Abstraction
Apr/May 2024Kunstmuseum Basel’s Dan Flavin presentation asks key questions about the longevity of Flavin’s fluorescent tubes. Looking back, this minimalist approach and use of industrial materials was radical. It changed the course of art history forever.
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OBJECTS TRANSFORM
Issue 117 - Contemplation
Feb/March 2024With a special focus on the practice of sculptor Tara Donovan, this piece explores the major retrospective When Forms Come Alive at London’s Southbank Centre at Hayward Gallery, which looks at sixty years of contemporaray sculpture, telling the story through works that shapeshift, move and transfigure.
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CRAFTING A MEMORY
Issue 116 - Power of Experimentation
Dec/Jan 2023-4Es Devlin is renowned for large-scale installations and sculptures across theatre, architecture and activism. An Atlas of Es Devlin is her first major monographic museum show, surveying how she shapes stories and alternative points of view.
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Building the Picture
Issue 115 - Transforming Ideas
Oct/Nov 2023
Vitra Design Museum foregrounds what’s next in the story of architectural photography through the lens of a key image-maker, Iwan Baan. -
Aerial Perspective
Issue 114 - Time on Earth
Aug/Sep 2023In discussion with Alex MacLean, one of the featured photographers in Civilization: The Way We Live Now, which is at the Saatchi Gallery, London. This landmark exhibition tracks humanity’s ever-changing and complex systems across the world, through the eyes of 150 photographers
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THIN AIR
Issue 113 - History & Ecology
June/July 2023Taking a close look at London’s new contemporary art venue, The Beams, which creates immersive experiences through technology’s ability to prompt complex and visceral emotions.
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MEMORY INVESTIGATED
Issue 112 - Human Curiosity
Apr/May 2023On the persistence of images and their ability to embed themselves in collective memory in Thomas Demand's retrospective, The Stutter of History.