Egon Schiele and Francesca Woodman Life in Motion Tate Liverpool, UK [link] Through September 23, 2018 A curious pairing: disparate media and time period focusing on the body as a vessel to express internal psychological states. An arresting, impressive collection of work, the exhibition fails to delve into the premise of instability of identity developed through […]
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Diane Durant
Diane Durant Mental Pictures Ft Worth Community Arts Center [link] Ft. Worth, Texas Questioning history and truth with more than a sly nod to theorists Derrida, Saussure and Sontag, Durant’s textual images belie easy consumption. Meticulously printed and framed, the photographs challenge the viewer to imagine their own pictures, as well as reconfigure assumptions […]
Zoe Leonard
Zoe Leonard: Survey The Whitney, New York [link] I want a president, 1992 Typewriting on paper Although this work is the least assuming object in Leonard’s retrospective, it resonates with omnipotent irony to our current political culture. Originally written for QW, an independent queer magazine that folded before publication, Leonard’s letter was an inciteful/insightful call […]
Chim↑Pom
Chim↑Pom Non-Burnable as part of INVISIBLE CITIES: Moving Images from Asia Dallas Contemporary, Dallas [link] Sept. 29 – Dec. 17, 2017 The prayers of well-wishing citizens are sent to Hiroshima in the form of thousands of pounds of colorful origami cranes. In a transmutation from cultural meme to sacred rubbish the totems are classified as “non-burnable” […]
Paper into Sculpture
Paper into Sculpture curated by Catherine Craft The Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas [link] The digital has emerged as the primary material for communication, replacing paper. Works featured in this exhibition engage paper’s historical links to systems of knowledge and its material (im)possibilities in intimate and epic works that render the invisible: time, space, and cycles […]