Reviews

Hito Steyerl: I Will Survive

Hito Steyerl is one of the most important artists of her generation, a landmark thinker of the image and its status under late capitalist accelerationism. Yet her recent retrospective at the Stedelijk Museum, I Will Survive, was marked by a semiotic complexity that did not coincide with what had been happening to the body in the past two years—my body, but also the body in a broader philosophical sense.

Type:
Reviews
Source:
Fall 2022
Location:
Amsterdam
Credit:
Text / Natasha Marie Llorens

Azza El Siddique: In the place of annihilation, where all the past was present and returned transformed

Azza El Siddique’s exhibition at MIT List Visual Arts Center is a treatise on scent and transformation. In the place...
Type:
Reviews
Source:
Fall 2022
Location:
Boston
Credit:
Text / Courtney McClellan

Simone Leigh: Sovereignty

“The work is a gateway, one that bridges extracted projections of African aesthetic realities by refocusing upon the origins of Black exterior expression. Those spaces—just like bodies—hold stories, memories, and dreams. The transformation of this pavilion foreshadowed how this experience would find me in a house of discourses. But this time, there could be a more nuanced conversation about the interiority of Black female consciousness.”

Type:
Reviews
Source:
Summer 2022
Location:
Venice, Italy
Credit:
Text / Mia Imani Harrison