Dive into the archives.
- Lucrecia Martel’s La mujer sin cabeza
A woman driving down a dirt road runs over something. At first, she thinks it is “only” a dog (this only is always negligible; one of the points of the film), but later, after the fact, she decides in her mind that it was in fact a child. Nobody can convince her otherwise.
A woman hits [...]
- Robert Mapplethorpe & Sterling Ruby @ Xavier Hufkens, Brussels
A very strange exhibition, and one of the best I’ve seen in a long time. The show is actually Ruby’s — or more precisely, Ruby selected photographs of Mapplethrope’s and then made sculptural works responding to them. But Ruby’s work seems to have nothing to do with Mapplethorpe’s at first glance; and the more you [...]
- The Art of Two Germanys
My review of The Art of Two Germanys just went online at Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art.
- Marion Bataillard
Looking at Marion Bataillard’s paintings is like peeking into a sort of madhouse or cult compound. Her figures are not quite gruesome enough to be called grotesque, but they aren’t pretty, either, and they inevitably bear expressions of rapture, existential befuddlement, and dementia. Her works are the expression of a very private vision of hell [...]
- British Art Now
My review of the exhibition British Art Now, now online at Artforum.
- Wieland Speck & Shelly Silver @ Exile, Berlin
My review of the Wieland Speck and Shelly Silver double solo exhibition at Exile is now online at Artforum.
- Dicklung & Others reviewed
My latest poetry collection, Dicklung & Others, has been reviewed at Orange Alert.
- Rainer Fetting
My review of Rainer Fetting’s Berlin exhibition, which briefly appeared here a few days ago, is now online at Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art.
- Nan Goldin in Berlin
“As a photographer, Nan Goldin has inspired a legion of imitators who tend to confuse certain lifestyle traits with artistic substance, a privileging of content over form with an excuse for taking sloppy photographs.”
My review of Nan Goldin’s current Berlin exhibition is now online at Artforum.
- Memory Glyphs
My review of Memory Glyphs, a recent anthology of Romanian prose poetry, is now online at 3ammagazine.com.
