Roger Hiorns: “A quiet activity in the transformation of forms.”[1]
Roger Hiorns is not here. He was, but he left. The works hum with his departure, a slight frisson, inaudible and alive. Detergent foam drips lethargically from hollows and crevices. Crystal...
View ArticleOne Plus One Equals One // Lindsay Seers, Entangled2 (Theatre II), Matt’s...
Lindsay Seers practice keeps on getting entangled within itself, as many motifs from her previous works – such as biographical points of departure which are dissected into historical narratives, a...
View ArticleLosing Track // Pierre Huyghe, Centre Pompidou, 26th September 2013
Pierre Huyghe, Centre Pompidou, 26th September 2013 I was sitting in the back seat of the taxi, all my muscles tensed and my leg bouncing up and down. As if driving myself, I was fully focused on the...
View ArticleThe Hallway of Performativity // See Under: Actor, Petach Tikva Museum of...
In her accompanying text for the group show See Under: Actor, which is investigating the actor as an agent, curator Segal states that spaces can also play a role as actors: they construct “a narrative...
View ArticleKettle’s Yard – House Guests: Stereoscopic Viewer
This text was featured in a publication that accompanied House Guests, an exhibition at Kettle’s Yard in 2013. Interview with Professor Liba Taub, Director and Curator of the Whipple Museum of the...
View ArticleSensing Spaces: a review
The central problem of curating a show about architecture is how to attend to the qualities of space, light, and scale which are so central to the discipline, but which are difficult to assess from the...
View ArticleLooking up at the Library – an interview with Ruth Beale
The day after the opening of Ruth Beale’s exhibition Bookbed at Peckham Platform the gallery is busy, the door swinging open and shut almost constantly. Beale is sitting opposite me on the eponymous...
View ArticleThat Vessel
“A Premonition of the Act” | Rose English at Camden Arts Centre | 12th December 2015 – 6th March 2016 ———————————————————————————– A low, round, revolving stage is lit from above. An audience circles...
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Ways of Not Seeing
‘Seeing comes before words.’ With this sentence John Berger opened his 1972 text Ways of Seeing. But Berger develops this. Though ‘it is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world’,...
View ArticleRichard Mosse, Incoming
in / with / out A review of Richard Mosse’s Incoming, installed in the Barbican’s Curve Gallery, 15 Feb – 23 Apr 2017. in Coming in, coming through, coming down, into darkness. Lowering: (toes, calves,...
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