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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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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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Embodiment of a Muse: “Maternity” by Tamara de Lempicka
Tamara de Lempicka, “Maternity” (1928) © Tamara de Lempicka Estate LLC Once again, I am here. Every night, I am forced to remove my garments for an infantile who doesn’t deserve it. No please, no thank you. There’s no warm tea waiting by the fireplace. No fresh robe hanging by the door, greeting me into…
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