Meta-Mythical Optimisation” by Chino Moya: An Apocalypse of Routine in Monastic Robes
“Utopia is a necessary dream. But also an inevitable nightmare.” We walk into Chino Moya’s exhibition with this thought in mind, perhaps a distortion of some dystopian author’s words, or maybe just our own cynical synthesis. Because every time we are presented with a vision of the future, especially one that promises to be post-labor, […]
Private on Display: Juliette Blightman and the Performance of Intimacy
“Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only one who is never serious.” – Oscar Wilde There is something paradoxical about intimacy today. It is everywhere and nowhere. The private spills into the public with unsettling ease, lives laid bare, emotions broadcast live, family albums turned into performance. […]
Rexy Tseng, Mouthful of Dirty Copper, Magenta Plains, New York
“The world is made of decaying materials, of structures that slowly collapse, of time accumulating on things.” A phrase that could easily belong to Rexy Tseng, if only we could find it somewhere. But that’s exactly how we feel standing in front of his paintings, as if the world weren’t crumbling in some grand, spectacular […]
