Tag: art installations
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Liturgies of the uncanny
Maurizio Cattelan’s NIGHT at Berlin’s Neue Nationalgalerie brings history, power, memory and belief into an unsettling encounter with the past.
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When cinema was a weapon
Zineb Sedira revisits the political cinema of Algeria and the wider Global South in the 1960s and 1970s, when film became a means of resistance and collective imagination. At Tate Britain, her immersive reconstruction raises a contemporary question: can cinema still inspire collective action?
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When perception gives way to sacrifice
Anish Kapoor returns to the Hayward Gallery with an exhibition that is both visually spectacular and emotionally unsettling. While his monumental voids and Vantablack sculptures continue to challenge our perception of space, his recent corporeal works confront visitors with flesh, blood, and sacrificial ritual. This review examines how the retrospective navigates the friction between quiet…
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When mental states find material expression
Veronica Ryan: Multiple Conversations at Whitechapel Gallery surveys four decades of work through sculpture, collage and drawing. Moving beyond themes of migration and memory, the exhibition reveals Ryan’s exceptional ability to give physical form to psychological experience.
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Surviving the webs of life
Beyond simple memory, the Hayward Gallery hosts a visceral confrontation between Yin Xiuzhen’s sociopolitical textiles and Chiharu Shiota’s psychological webs. A staggering dialogue between the world we have ruined through rapid modernisation and the body that must endure it.
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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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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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Art for emotional and spiritual transformation
Marina Abramović’s long-awaited retrospective at the Royal Academy of Arts traces five decades of radical performance, exploring endurance, vulnerability, spirituality, and the transformative power of art.
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Fibrous structures
Magdalena Abakanowicz’s Tate Modern exhibition reveals her groundbreaking transformation of woven fibre into monumental sculptural forms, immersing viewers in a primal landscape that redefines the boundaries between textile, sculpture and the human body.