Between Precariousness and Structure: Fakewhale in Dialogue with Giovanni Termini
Giovanni Termini‘s art is a continuous dialogue with space, matter, and the tensions between balance and fragility. His work transforms the construction site into a space for aesthetic and conceptual reflection, where emptiness is never absence but possibility. In an art world increasingly dri
Losing the Backup Fragments of a Fading Digital Memory
A few months ago, my computer was stolen. With no backup. In an instant, I lost photos, writings, videos, and the archives of the last and first thirty years of my life. The external backup I had was faulty and irrecoverable. That was the end. After a mild nervous breakdown, I followed the stages th
Maija Fox, Valo Vairio, A Base For A Crane at Galleria Sculptor, Helsinki
A Base For A Crane by Maija Fox and Valo Vairio at Galleria Sculptor, Helsinki, 28/02/2025–23/03/2025. Exhibition Text:A Base For A Crane: A home of materials, nets, machines, spirits, and workers; a community of connectors nestled together. From liquid to fixture, from grass to sky, from lifting
Fakewhale in dialogue with Ofluxo
We have been following the journey of O Fluxo with great interest. As an online platform, it has distinguished itself through its ability to capture and showcase the most experimental trends in contemporary art, design, and visual culture. With a keen curatorial approach and a deep sensitivity to
Visual Detachment x Verse: Retina Misconceptions Allow Boundless Medium
On March 25th, 2025, Visual Detachment returns exclusively at Verse with a new Fakewhale Gallery format that interrogates our ingrained modes of seeing. By centering on the concept of “retina misconceptions,” this exhibition dissects the biases embedded in our visual apparatus and explores how d
Geoffrey Pugen, Webtology: Prisms at MKG127, Toronto
Webtology: Prisms by Geoffrey Pugen, curated by Michael Klein, at MKG127, Toronto, 15/02/2025–15/03/2025. Exhibition Text:Webtology: Prisms explores speculative futures through digital collage, integrating sourced imagery, 3D modeling, and AI-generated textures. Pugen begins by extracting and mani
Justin Urbach, BLINDHÆD at Galerie Stadt Sindelfingen, Sindelfingen
BLINDHÆD by Justin Urbach, curated by Marisa Zeising, at Galerie Stadt Sindelfingen, Sindelfingen, 08/03/2025–25/05/2025. Exhibition Text:Galerie Stadt Sindelfingen is pleased to present BLINDHÆD, the first institutional solo exhibition by Justin Urbach (*1995 in Munich). BLINDHÆD allows us to
Banks Violette in Conversation with Jesse Draxler hosted by Fakewhale
Banks Violette is an American artist whose sculptures and installations mine the aesthetics of black metal, punk, and subcultural extremity to interrogate violence, erasure, and existential collapse. Born in Ithaca, New York, his trajectory—from personal struggles including addiction, to his statu
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
Daniel Turner: Material Transformation, Memory, and the Poetics of Residue
Dissolution and Persistence of Form Daniel Turner’s work exists in a space where materiality is both presence and absence, where objects are not simply created but transformed, reduced, or even erased. His sculptural practice does not rely on traditional notions of form but instead explores how ma
