Ghosts, Holograms, and AI: Emi Kusano’s EGO in the Shell
What separates being from system is becoming almost imperceptible. Inspired by the visionary Ghost in the Shell, Emi Kusano’s first solo show in New York examines this uncertainty in the age of AI. In EGO in the Shell, she explores how algorithms capture, filter, and refract us, rendering every ge
Sandra Mujinga, Skin to Skin at Stedelijk Museum, an Interview by Matteo Giovanelli
On September 11th, the Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam, NL) opened Skin to Skin, the new solo show by Sandra Mujinga, a portal to a unique parallel world. Conceived as a void, the exhibition room presents itself as a green space, translating the concept of the digital green screen into physical reality.
The Power of Cute: Review of the 13th Berlin Biennale by Sofia Baldi Pighi
From rhetoric to whisper, the 13th Berlin Biennale adopts a deliberate posture of political engagement. It looks sideways, renounces slogans and the monumentality of frontal denunciation, and instead prefers a critical discourse whispered in the ear. This edition investigates fugitivity, understood
Curating Otherwise: Interdependence as a Tool to Practice
When the old is dying and the new delays, a counter-movement rises in the infrathin of the now. Outside the prestige ecosystems of museums, biennials, and the increasing artist-run spaces, the figure of the independent curator moves on unsteady grounds marked by precarity given by the ongoing lack o
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 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
Blurring Boundaries: Yiming on Machines, Organisms, and the Future of Hybrid Art
Yiming’s work consistently navigates the blurred boundaries between the organic and the synthetic, the conscious and the constructed, the human and the machine. Her hybrid sculptures and low-tech installations dwell in a liminal space, one that questions not only the role of technology in shaping
Observing and Being Observed: The Unstable Aesthetics of Einschub
In an era where perception is constantly mediated by screens, reflections, and recordings, Jasper Marsalis invites us to recognize the fragility of our position as observers. In Einschub, every gaze is doubled, every gesture multiplied, every presence rendered an unstable surface. We are no longer m
Marek Wolfryd, Occidenterie at General Expenses, Mexico City
Occidenterie by Marek Wolfryd, at General Expenses, Mexico City, 03/02/2025-22/03/2025. Exhibition Text: We are all familiar with chinoiserie: those artifacts, especially popular in decorative arts, on which the West poured all of their thirst for Eastern exotism, imitating and reinterpreting Chines
