Fakewhale in dialogue with Yuki Okumura: On the Subjectivity of Exhibition Space
In his solo exhibition at the Secession in Vienna (March 8 – May 18, 2025), Yuki Okumura transforms the supposedly neutral white cube into a living organism endowed with memory, voice, and identity. Through three site-specific projects, Wilhelm as Hauptraum, Secession’s Hive Mind(s), and Big W
Georg Dahled, Sofiia Yesakova, Vanitous Spectre at Nymphenburg Palace, Iron House, Munich
Vanitous Spectre by Georg Dahled and Sofiia Yesakova at Nymphenburg Palace, Iron House, Munich, 12/07/2025–03/08/2025. Some spaces seem to have forgotten they are buildings. Stepping into the Iron House at Nymphenburg feels like entering an echo: the glass absorbs and multiplies, the iron remember
“The Illusion of Thinking”: When Art Learns to Simulate Depth
A few days ago, Apple released a paper titled The Illusion of Thinking, in which the authors argue, with notable methodological precision, that even the most advanced language models, including OpenAI’s o3, do not truly “think.” What actually happens, according to their findings, is a sophisti
This Sculpture Doesn’t Exist: Matteo Rattini in Dialogue with Fakewhale
Matteo Rattini’s work stems from a radical intuition about the identity and life cycle of art images in the digital sphere. His practice intertwines critical observation of platforms, displaced authorship through artificial intelligence, and visibility as both an aesthetic and political condition.
Silver Trail: NEORT++ and VolumeDAO Play for Legacy, Not Hype
Tokyo doesn’t do silence, even when it’s melting outside. I haven’t been hitting many shows lately — not as many as usual, anyway. My batteries are cooked. But this one stayed on my radar. I stopped by the pre-opening talk at TOKYO NODE. I hadn’t planned to check out the exhibition so soon
HSUBAND at Plicnik: Coupling Systems and Industrial Poetics
“Every factory seems to promise a form of coherence. HSUBAND stages that promise as a condition under inspection: parts, protocols, bodies, words. The space appears frictionless, an environment where coupling is always theoretically achievable, yet the terms of that coupling remain unsettled.
The Flickering Light: Marcello Maloberti – METRONOTTE
What remains of God when the word goes dark? We asked ourselves this as we stepped into San Carlo Church, welcomed by the cool breath of stone and the faint scent of worn plaster, like walking into an ancient memory. We must admit: the walls, chipped and solemn, seemed to be holding their breath. Th
Eliza Douglas: Guggenheim, at Overduin & Co., Los Angeles
Some artists build worlds; others wrap them up. Walking into Guggenheim, Eliza Douglas’s latest solo exhibition, the question arises instantly: what exactly are we looking at? A simulacrum? A caricature? Or a sealed gift, waiting to be opened? And above all, what kind of gift? The monumental stage
The Hypermediated State and Fakewhale’s Practice in Spotlight
“Is it still possible to recognize innovation? And can curation have a larger impact if it is robbed of its inventive qualities before it can propose something new – silenced through the process by which visual art identifies otherness as an essential part of what feeds its continuation? We can
Fakewhale in conversation with François Vogel: ENTRO_PY, Elasticity as an entropic trigger of expanded reality
Reality is never what is simply presented. It is what resists the stability of appearance. Throughout the twentieth century, both the body and vision have undergone a progressive deconstruction. From the performative disruptions of Happenings to Bruce Nauman’s early video experiments, from the fra
