Through the intervention of images and objects of daily consumption, Minerva Cuevas invites us to rethink the role corporations play in food production and the management of natural resources. Employing irony and humor, her work seeks to provoke reflection on politics and the potential impact of local actions on the enforcement of fair labor practices […]
Monthly Archives: August 2017
Katinka Bock: Spatiality, Displacement and Time
Whether working with landscape or designing forms, objects and installations for indoor spaces, Katinka Bock often has territory on her mind. Her oeuvre explores concepts of spatiality, displacement and time with a vocabulary reminiscent of arte povera and post-minimalism. This German artist’s pieces are utterly devoid of any opulence or redundancy, and in their rigorous […]
Identities and Temporalities: Thoughts from Walid Raad’s Materiality
Dedicated to exploring the veracity of photographic and video documents in the public realm, the role of memory and narrative within discourses of conflict, and the construction of histories of art in the Arab world, Raad’s work is informed by his upbringing in Lebanon during the civil war (1975–91), and by the socioeconomic and military […]