The Thinking Game: On the Cognitive Origins of Play
The Cognitive Origin Of Play What happens when play, seemingly a light and purposeless activity, is observed as a way of knowing the world?In a museum, a place devoted to preservation and reflection, play may reveal itself not as a simple childhood pastime, but as a universal principle of knowledge
The Digital Frontier of a New Artistic Underground
Every collapse hides a possibility. The fall of the contemporary art market (especially its upper tier) is not the end of art, but the exhaustion of a system that has mistaken visibility for meaning. What follows is not silence, but a slow reconfiguration, a search for new forms of expression capabl
Fakewhale in dialogue with Suez Canal Republic
‘Treasury’ by Suez Canal Republic A remote financial node as an institutional prototype for civic speculation Within Fakewhale’s ongoing research into practices that recalibrate the relation between digital art and contemporary art, we have been focusing on projects that enact complexity rathe
Life in Frames: The Wounded and Luminous World of Nan Goldin
There is something profoundly alive, and at the same time irreparably wounded, in Nan Goldin’s world. Entering the exhibition This Will Not End Well, presented at Pirelli HangarBicocca in Milan, means crossing a threshold where personal memory becomes a universal language and the image turns into
Fakewhale in conversation with KiefferWoodtli
There’s something profoundly tactile, though entirely invisible,in the installations of KiefferWoodtli. Their work doesn’t just ask to be observed; it moves through you. Blending ecology, sound, and sensory perception, the Swiss duo builds environments where the relationship between humans and n
Tiffany Sia: Phantasmatic Screens at Mudam Luxembourg, behind the veils of perception
“Remembering is never an innocent act. It is rewriting the past with hands steeped in the present.”That’s what we told ourselves as we stepped into the rooms of Phantasmatic Screens, where a diffused white light fell on a rippled curtain, quivering like skin under a shiver. We wondered: is it
Fakewhale in conversation with Alexander Endrullat
From the very beginning, Alexander Endrullat’s work caught our attention for its ability to deconstruct the language of technological objects, transforming them into sensitive surfaces, narrative tools, and at times, ghostly visual traces. Spanning from printing with obsolete laptops to pinhole ph
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
Fakewhale in conversation with Brennan Wojtyla
With LAN, Brennan Wojtyla transforms TICK TACK into an immersive installation that fuses gameplay, network infrastructure, and architecture, merging early 2000s LAN party culture with the concrete brutality of De Zonnewijzer. The exhibition moves fluidly between digital nostalgia and spatial manipul
Fakewhale in conversation with Jin Lee
Liminal Ring (2024) by Jin Lee caught our attention for its subtle yet powerful reflection on how humans try to control natural forces, and where that ambition falls short. With its use of 384 laminar-flow fans set against the unpredictable nature of turbulence, the work becomes a meditation on the
