Collecting the Digital: the Gesture, the Container, the Era
Collecting art today can no longer be understood simply as owning an object. Not in an age when the artwork itself has become fluid, dematerialized, and inseparable from the digital environment in which it is created.We live in a time when the shared digital image holds unprecedented cultural weight. More often than not, an artwork […]
Thinking in Images: André Malraux and the Museum Without Walls
The Curatorial Gesture as Artwork The photograph of André Malraux, surrounded by a constellation of images laid across the floor, does not depict a moment of preparation or research, it enacts a gesture of creation. What we witness is not an editorial pause but an authorial act. Malraux’s posture, absorbed and upright, does not suggest […]
Zhankun Dai, Crashing Exercises at Vanguard Gallery, Shanghai
Crashing Exercises by Zhankun Dai, at Vanguard Gallery, Shanghai, 29 May – 26 July 2025. You don’t walk into Crashing Exercises, you breach it. A fractured fuselage leans like a wounded threshold at the gallery’s entrance, and already the air feels charged with a hush that is anything but peaceful. There’s a scent of scorched […]
