Damián Ortega: The Sedimentary Layers of Society
Born in 1967 in Mexico City, Damián Ortega began his career as a political cartoonist, sharpening his critical eye and honing his incisive sense of humor during a time of political unrest. [...]
Carter’s Supraindividual Practices
Carter has gained critical recognition in the past decade with his complex collaged paintings; “anonymous” sculptural busts and works in video and Polaroid photography. His preoccupation with [...]
Under the Capitalist Regime: Minerva Cuevas
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. [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
Adrian Villar Rojas’s Theater of Disappearance
Depending on how you look at it, Adrián Villar Rojas’s The Theater of Disappearance —The Met’s 2017 Roof Garden Commission— may, at first glance, seem like a surreal dreamscape, [...]
The Great (Des) Acceleration by Opavivará!
OPAVIVARÁ! is an art collective from Rio de Janeiro, which develops actions in public spaces of the city, galleries and cultural institutions, offering inversions in the use of urban space [...]
Iman Issa’s: Heritage Studies
Iman Issa is known for her politically inflected and civically engaged conceptual sculpture. Issa was first a student of political science and philosophy in Cairo before switching to painting. [...]