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Architectural Camouflage and the Class Dynamics of Housing
Gabriel Cira reveals how confounding façades can also reinforce the dominant narrative by masking economic differences to favor a mirage of homogeneity. Photos by Pat Falco.
Firelei Báez: The Poetics of Opacity
Cosmo Whyte and Firelei Báez discuss practices of coding, withholding, and “mixing the honey with the sting” in Báez’s symbolically layered works.
100 Boyfriends by Brontez Purnell
Inaudibility: Krista Belle Stewart’s Sonic Repatriation of Knowledge
Krista Belle Stewart mines the power of strategic incomprehensibility to reclaim ownership through the mediation of access and refusal.
Cross Pollination: Heade, Cole, Church, and Our Contemporary Moment
PEN15
PEN15 shouldn’t work—two 33-year-old women acting like 13-year-olds while surrounded by a cast of actual 13-year-olds—but good God, does it.
Claudia Peña Salinas: Seeing Sites Without Sightseeing
Claudia Peña Salinas takes stock of how some of the most visited archeological and spiritual sites in Mexico endure tourism for generations, yet still provide eternal inspiration.
Constitutionally Flawed
María Korol’s artist project traces the subtext of history and autobiography in her practice of layered obfuscation.
Resisting the Spectacle
Sasha Cordingley explores the shift in representations of pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong, from the international news media’s spectacle to the intimate banalities of continual struggle, in Resisting the Spectacle—Tiffany Sia’s Never Rest/Unrest.