Author: Eva M. Sanchez
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Turning adversity into creativity
Jason and the Adventure of 254 by Jason Wilsher-Mills at the Wellcome Collection is a joyful and moving exhibition that transforms childhood disability and adversity into vibrant creativity. Blending memory, humour, and imagination, the artist invites viewers to reflect on resilience, identity, and the origins of artistic expression.
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Beguiling portraits of human culture
The Monkey by Michaël Borremans at David Zwirner London is a haunting exhibition that merges 18th-century painting techniques with contemporary existential themes. Drawing on Old Master traditions, singerie, and psychological staging, Borremans presents enigmatic figures that explore identity, alienation, and the rituals of human culture.
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Abstractions of the Mind in Photography
A visit to The Photographers’ Gallery in London to experience the photography of Graciela Iturbide. The exhibition offers an insightful introduction to her major bodies of work, exploring Mexican culture, identity, and belonging through a poetic blend of documentary and imagination.
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Entering the artistic universe of a feminist avant-garde artist
A visit to Alison Jacques Gallery in London to explore the feminist avant-garde universe of Birgit Jürgenssen. This exhibition (28 June–3 August 2024) brings together photography, sculpture, drawings, and iconic works such as Mattress Shoes, offering a powerful critique of female identity, domesticity, and patriarchal structures.
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Paintings with a dreamlike quality
In Plain Sight at Halcyon Gallery in London presents dreamlike, semi-abstract paintings by Ernesto Cánovas that explore memory, perception, and disappearance. Drawing on cinema, history, and photography, Cánovas manipulates found imagery and materials such as wood and aluminium to create evocative works that oscillate between abstraction and representation.
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The creative potential of textiles in art
Unravel: The Power and Politics of Textiles in Art at the Barbican Art Gallery in London brings together over 100 works by 50 international artists. Spanning the 1960s to today, the exhibition explores textiles as a powerful artistic medium—examining weaving, stitching, and fibre as tools for storytelling, resistance, and cultural memory.
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Organic sculpture that captures your imagination
When Forms Come Alive at the Hayward Gallery presents a compelling survey of contemporary sculpture from the last 60 years, featuring immersive works inspired by organic growth, movement, and transformation. Through large-scale installations and materially rich forms, the exhibition blurs the boundaries between art, nature, and science, inviting visitors into a continuously shifting sensory experience.
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The richness of Latin American art
The Richness of Latin American Art explores the exhibition TERRITORIES: Contemporary Latin American Art in the Jorge M. Pérez Collection at CAAC Seville, highlighting works by over 50 artists that address identity, borders, memory, and social inequality across Latin America.
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Painting the banality of evil
Painting the Banality of Evil reflects on the Philip Guston retrospective at Tate Modern, marking the artist’s first major UK exhibition in nearly two decades. Tracing Guston’s journey from abstract expressionism to his provocative figurative works confronting racism, violence, and moral responsibility, the article examines the enduring relevance and controversy of his art in today’s…
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Ten timber sculptures
Set among the trees of Kensington Gardens, Georg Baselitz’s exhibition immerses visitors in monumental timber sculptures that explore memory, materiality, and the tension between figuration and abstraction.