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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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The Moldy Aesthetic
From the Petri Dish to the Canvas, Fungus and Bacteria are “Cultured“ Gala Porras-Kim, “Out of an instance of expiration comes a perennial showing” (2022) © courtesy of the artist; photograph Andy Keate; exh. Gasworks, London It was the first time I had to walk through a plastic sheet to enter a museum room. That…

