Author: Oisín McGilloway
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By breaking down and re-constituting spectators’ movement through her moving-image works, Melanie Manchot re-defines the social spaces that have historically excluded women. Off the back of her first feature film, STEPHEN, premiering at Liverpool Biennal 2023, In Darkness and Light contextualises Manchot’s video practice with contemporaneous works that chart the German photographer’s skills in moving…
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Rivers’ filmic trialogue presents a dystopia of language and representation, flickering ceaselessly between reverent and polemical. The pre-fab screening room that takes up the majority of Kate McGarry limits light ascetically. The black-and-white film doesn’t offer a lot of light to reflect off the mostly black interior. The only source of light, fitted in a…
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Ain Bailey presents an exemplary demonstration of cultural reception and memory with The Jamaica Project. The centrepiece of Ain Bailey’s The Jamaica Project, a new iPhone-shot travelogue of her trip to Jamaica, 5C Jacques Road: Part One, plays on vast, floating screen; with the crowds that surround it on opening night, it feels like discovering…
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For his 15th show at the historic venue, Lisson Gallery exhibit a selection of arborous works by the late Canadian artist Rodney Graham. From camera-obscura works, to painting, conceptual sculpture and video, the multi-media exhibition captures a groundbreaking artist’s time in history as well as nature. The main gallery of Lisson’s Bell Street location, which…
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Multimedia artist Joe Moss turns Matt’s Gallery into a playroom for surveillance technology in his latest intertextual, multi-verse installation. Moss’ oeuvre often deals in sculptures, particularly smaller models that evoke themes of cuteness and vulnerability. In Automated Fantasy Procedure, two small drones take their place, flying overhead, recording a path shown on the two screens,…
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In May 2026, Zineb Sedira takes her explorations of identity and migration to the Duveen Galleries. The show will be part of the Tate Britain Commission. Encouraging responses to the building’s neo-classical architecture, the Tate Britain Commission allows the space to remain alive, providing artists with the opportunity to reinvent the experience of walking through…
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United at NıCOLETTı last autumn, Valentin Noujaïm brings his urban enigmas Pacific Club (2022) and To Exist Under Permanent Suspicion (2024), where they were joined by Demons to Diamonds, fresh off its gallery tour in 2025, to complete the artist’s La Défense Trilogy. While the films attempt to mystify a topic widely written about, the…
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Returning for this year’s London Palestine Film Festival, Yasmin Fedda’s 2020 documentary about two men forcibly ‘disappeared’ by the Syrian Government, led by the now-ousted Bashar al-Assad. Five years after its release, the hope and perseverance of their loved ones to find answers burns as bright as ever. The film jumps between the lives of…
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Roland Nurier’s minor-release documentary The Tank and the Olive Tree about the history of Palestine passed cinemagoers in 2019. Revived for a screening in Sands Films Studios for the London Palestine Film Festival 2025 last month, the film acts as a catalyst for conversation, with the bittersweetness of renewing its appeal, yet through the vein…
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On its fleeting visit to the UK after winning the Award for Outstanding Artistic Contribution at IDFA last year, Omar Mismar’s meditative documentary A Frown Gone Mad brings Beirut’s industrial complex of beautification to London’s ICA. From a single room in a Bouba’s popular salon, Mismar explores the production of war, beauty, and cinema, with…
