Art and Critique
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Prototypes: Live Fragments Review
A trip through memories at Studio DB The other night at Studio DB felt like stepping into someone else’s dream — or maybe their memory, fragmented and replayed in loops that never quite land where you expect them to. Prototypes: Live Fragments by Oscar Atanga unfolded like an echo chamber of sound, image, and time…
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“Suzanne Duchamp does more intelligent things than paint.” – Francis Picabia
Suzanne Duchamp at Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt Am Main © Suzanne Duchamp / 2024, ProLitteris, Zurich The sentence stands there on the wall before you even enter. A provocation, maybe a compliment, maybe a dismissal — it’s hard to tell. I read it twice before stepping inside, wondering how it must have felt to have those…
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Still Life: The State of Art in Cyprus
Paraskos Stass, “Pagan Spring” (1968) Under the scorching Cypriot sun, I was thrilled to have an air-conditioned pause at the State Gallery of Contemporary Cypriot Art, located in the heart of Nicosia. With the island’s rich and layered heritage—shaped by its position at the crossroads of continents and influenced by Greek, Turkish, Middle Eastern, and…
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Who Am I / Who Are You
On Ancestry, Collapse, and the Oceanic Call in Jafa and Owuor ©2025 Arthur Jafa, Courtesy of the artist, Gladstone Gallery and Sprüth Magers “Woooooow!”A young girl gasped as she walked into the space where Arthur Jafa’s AGHDRA (2021) was installed, at Bourse de Commerce, Paris. A vast, empty hall. A few stairs to sit on.…
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