Author: Eva M. Sanchez
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Exploring the head as a landscape of the soul in painting
Marwan: A Soul in Exile at Christie’s London explores the head as a psychological and spiritual landscape. Through layered portraiture shaped by exile, memory, and place, Marwan transforms faces into inner terrains that reflect identity, loss, and the human condition.
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Rediscovering the radical eroticism of 1960s sculpture
Abstract Erotic en The Courtauld Gallery reúne a Louise Bourgeois, Eva Hesse y Alice Adams para revisitar un momento de exploración material radical en la escultura de los años 60. A través de abstracción sensual y materiales poco convencionales, la muestra revela cómo la suavidad y la vulnerabilidad transformaron el lenguaje escultórico.
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Exploring home through fabric architecture at Tate Modern
Do Ho Suh: Walk the House at Tate Modern explores ideas of home, memory, and belonging through large-scale fabric architecture, drawings, and immersive installations. Shaped by the artist’s experiences in Seoul, New York, and London, the exhibition invites viewers to reflect on what it truly means to carry home with us.
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Arte Povera at the Serpentine Gallery
Giuseppe Penone’s Thoughts in the Roots at the Serpentine Gallery transforms the exhibition space into an extension of Kensington Gardens. Through sculpture, scent, sound, and material, Penone invites us to slow down and rediscover our connection with trees, nature, and time itself.
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The power of art to uplift others
A reflection on the Barbican exhibition dedicated to Noah Davis, whose work portrays Black life with beauty, majesty, joy, and humour in the face of systemic racism. Through dreamlike figurative paintings and a radical commitment to access and inclusion, Davis created a body of work that transcends time, place, and representation.
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Feminist visions in Balinese art
A reflection on Into Eternal Land, the first UK exhibition by Balinese artist Citra Sasmita at The Curve, Barbican Centre. Drawing on mythology, ancestral techniques, and a feminist perspective, the exhibition reinterprets Balinese tradition to place women at the center of a post-patriarchal world.
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Paintings for a Blooming Consciousness
A review of The Greenhouse, Inka Essenhigh’s exhibition at Victoria Miro Gallery in London. The article examines her lush, imaginative paintings—rich in botanical forms, mythology, and symbolism—as meditations on perception, consciousness, and the enduring power of painting to envision alternative worlds.
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Visceral Sculptures in the Turbine Hall
A powerful review of Open Wound, Mire Lee’s Hyundai Commission for Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall. This article examines how Lee transforms the vast industrial space into a visceral, body-like environment where machinery, vulnerability, and human labour intersect, evoking themes of precarity, decay, and care.
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Narratives of oppression
A critical reflection on The House of Bernarda Alba at Elizabeth Xi Bauer Gallery, London, this review explores how Elena Njoabuzia Onwochei-Garcia and Sam Llewellyn-Jones reinterpret Federico García Lorca’s classic play through immersive painting and photography. Drawing connections between historical and contemporary forms of oppression, the exhibition evokes tension, isolation, and political unease within a…
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Fairy tales in the contemporary world
Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolves? marks Anna Weyant’s first London exhibition at Gagosian Gallery. Through technically refined figurative painting, Weyant draws on Flemish portraiture and Baroque chiaroscuro to explore femininity, identity, and the unsettling tension between beauty and melancholy.