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Ivana Bašić “Metempsychosis: The Passion of Pneumatics” Schinkel Pavillon / Berlin
July. 20, 2024
Ivana Bašić “Metempsychosis: The Passion of Pneumatics” Schinkel Pavillon / Berlin
July. 20, 2024
untitled,
bruce hainley & shahryar nashat.
Renaissance Society, Chicago
coming soon.
The Brooklyn Rail
Hindley Wang On Candice Lin
Nov. 2023
The height was my height, I thought. I carefully considered the wooden structure that carved out the center opening. Small pieces of ink drawings were tucked in one corner or another, hunching and gleaming. Monsters grimace like cautionary road signs.
Hindley Wang On Candice Lin
Nov. 2023
The height was my height, I thought. I carefully considered the wooden structure that carved out the center opening. Small pieces of ink drawings were tucked in one corner or another, hunching and gleaming. Monsters grimace like cautionary road signs.
The Brooklyn Rail
Oneness:
Nature and Connectivity in Chinese Art
Sept. 2023
This captivating aporia is echoed in Ming Fay’s sculptures. Staging a whimsical anthropomorphic response to the Daoist association of good virtues with the expression of flora and plant life, Ming Fay imagines the connectivity between humanity and nature otherwise. Money Tree Garden, Hybrid plants and Fruit (1984–2022), transforms horticultural bodies into free-standing individuals.
Oneness:
Nature and Connectivity in Chinese Art
Sept. 2023
This captivating aporia is echoed in Ming Fay’s sculptures. Staging a whimsical anthropomorphic response to the Daoist association of good virtues with the expression of flora and plant life, Ming Fay imagines the connectivity between humanity and nature otherwise. Money Tree Garden, Hybrid plants and Fruit (1984–2022), transforms horticultural bodies into free-standing individuals.
Artforum International
Guanyu Xu:
Duration of Stay
2023-08-19
Xu's works involve tearing, fragmentation and reorganization that are not on the grounds of destruction or obliteration. It is rather a sort of brokenness held in forbearance. His syntax speaks discipline with disorder, docility with turmoil—like a glitch in the system, elegant malfunctions whose location of error is at once obvious and illusive.
The Brooklyn Rail
Leon Xu:
Empty Orchestra
2023-06-23
They don’t appear as much as they linger, declare as much as they hum. Dilated but not out of focus, they are recordings of tangible observations recalled in soft concentration, sprayed with contentment and glossed over with loss.
The Brooklyn Rail
Leah Ke Yi Zheng
2023-05-26
These sheer objects impart a voyeuristic pleasure that comes with its equal dose of agony. The allure of something beyond enlists desperate callings answered only by the empty echo reverberated from the void of the wall, peeking through the peach and purple Untitled’s “inside.”
Hyperallergic
“The Objectification of Yayoi Kusama”
2023-04-03
I observed her pouchy eyelids weighing on her signature (in)expression of skepticism — the rounded stare imbued with a hint of obsession that is irreducible even to its robotic facsimile. I waited for it to turn toward me.
LEAP艺术界
“Sugar, the Unbearable Sweetness from the Caribbean Sea”
2022-10-19
“...The belly of the boats overturned, and took on the shape of tongues—their appetite exposed, ingesting all the liquid that touches their papillae, as the water too grew more and more insatiable, since its first taste of sweetness...”
Sixty Inches From Center
Untitling Pleasures:
A conversation with Hannah Levy on tension & sensation
2022-01-15
Roland Barthes describes the striptease as a “delicious threat…a spectacle based on fear.”
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This is what came to mind when I saw Hannah Levy’s work in her show Surplus Tension at the Arts Club of Chicago. Note that the tease is not spoiled here–yet. Rather, what is on display captures the edging and agonizing voyage to full disclosure–caught in a contended seesaw with the excess of visual desire on one end, and the obstinate labor of concealment of desire on the other.