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November 2021
Falling
A fall from grace, falling asleep, falling pregnant, falling in-line or falling apart: falling is an act both comic and tragic, full of loss and wilful abandon, an act repeated throughout our lives. Reflecting on personal situations of bereavement and new life, Gabby Laurentโs performed choreography of falling is a space for self-reflection, allowing her body to repeatedly give way to gravity and create a visual space to contemplate time, fate and circumstance. Wha
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May 2020
POSTSCRIPTS
Small sized text book by Jalal Toufic, published in conjunction with the exhibition Let's be honest, the weather helped by Walid Raad at Moderna Museet, Stockholm (February 15 - May 10 2020). Joan Copjec about the book: A brilliant, ramifying series of thought experiments, Postscripts rigorously avoids becoming a no-stakes mind game. Here, the stakes - political, aesthetic, ethical - are quite high. For, the experiments are rigged to combust those ideas and stances thatinsufficiently tolerant of counterfactuals - fail to pass their test. Deadly seriou
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January 2021
ciprian honey cathedral
Raymond Meeks is renowned for his use of photography and the book form to poetically distill the liminal junctures of vision, consciousness and comprehension. Inโฏciprian honey cathedral, he brings this scrutiny close to home, delicately probing at the legibility of our material surroundings and the people closest to us.โฏ Meeks has long been fascinated by the way we construct the world around us; how we carry our possessions, these accumulated comforts, inheritances, markers of
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October 2021
Il desiderio messo a nudo
A sense of euphoria and vital fullness pervades the universe of Jeff Koons, populated by works that immortalize the fascination of mass consumer goods. The use of mirroring materials amplifies the almost erotic attraction that emanates from these banal objects, and makes them as voluptuous as sirens that seduce the viewer, inviting him to participate in the same idea of success of which they become messengers. Brilliant and maniacal like his sculptures, Koons talks abo
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