Web 2023

The 16th Lyon Biennale: manifesto of fragility

Moments like these, where the show drilled down on its complex resistance to heteronormativity (and thus paternalism), heightened the breakdown at Usines Fagor, with its abundance of large-scale installations that, while meaningful—as with Dana Awartani’s Standing by the Ruins of Aleppo (2021), a clay brick reproduction of the courtyard floor in Aleppo’s Grand Mosque—hinted at a curatorial anxiety to fill the site’s cavernous spaces.

Type:
Reviews
Source:
May 12, 2023
Credit:
Text / Stephanie Bailey

Symbionts: Contemporary Artists and the Biosphere

Each collaborative entity mobilizes its own kind of micro-performance, but together they maintain a coherence through the way we simultaneously apprehend them in the sensorium. As such, the materials feel less instrumentalized by aesthetics and more mysterious.

Type:
Reviews
Source:
February 1, 2023
Location:
Cambridge, MA
Credit:
Text / Laurel V. McLaughlin

Leah Clements—INSOMNIA

Providing access to the exhibition for blind and partially sighted people, this audio description acts as a way in for all audiences. Excitingly, here, through this interpretive sonic contribution, the visual aid becomes an affective feature rather than simply a functional element. It affects pace, the order of encounter, and the awareness of oneself in the environment, embedding us within it. It asks us to pay attention, to be indulgent with our time, and in so doing, to allow details and sensations to emerge.

Type:
Reviews
Source:
January 18, 2023
Location:
London, UK
Credit:
Text/ Kit Edwards