Category: Moving Image Art
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Presented for the first time in the UK, Tate Modern’s Ana Mendieta retrospective manages to be expansive while also zeroing in on the artist’s core themes and symbols—if at the expense of their broader meaning in contemporary society. It is hard to pinpoint along which lines Tate has organised this enormous retrospective. The sections somewhat…
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Several fairies adorn the expansive windows of Josh Lilley Gallery, hovering in the sun. Their small figures are suspended before various gaudy shades of sateen curtains within the alcoves. Some hold tiny lanterns and bulbs that flicker against the sheen of the glass and drape of the fabric, others are swathed in elaborate adornments. Under…
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As night falls on Manchester, Valentin Noujaïm and Space Afrika audio-visual hellscape The Dark Wood comes to life, confronting social and political collapse to fight for a brighter daybreak. For an installation concerned with architectural ruin, The Dark Wood presents its case with a deft symmetry. In the ICA’s Upper Gallery, each contribution by Noujaïm…
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Moyra Davey’s short history of four famous artists and their Ukrainian roots is a quiet contemplation on cultural memory, preservation and identity. Much of what drives cultural displacement, invasion and colonisation today is a future based in the past. It’s long been a quality of the postmodern world that the beliefs that fuelled conflicts and…
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By virtue of its process, we arrive at Seth Price’s ever-evolving video work, Redistribution, in the middle—a reminder that “everybody does, always.” First conceived as a slide lecture delivered by the artist at the Guggenheim in 2007 and subsequently reconfigured as a long-form video work, the current exhibition at Sadie Coles HQ Kingly Street gallery…
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With Bardo Loops, Gabriel Abrantes’ signature anthropomorphism is as emotional and ingenious as ever. Throughout his filmic oeuvre, multimedia artist Gabriel Abrantes has consistently returned to and nurtured an approach to exploring human emotions through non-human characters. The most famous example is The Artificial Humors (2016), a tidy answer to the common question “what if…
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The group show that transports viewers back to the months before the 2008 crash hesitates to leave the political and economic decline of the present behind—making it an art show for our times. Like a modern One Direction for the art world, ICA bring together recent works and new commissions from Jenna Bliss, Buck Ellison…
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With ‘Narrative Warfare’, Jordan Lord reclaims the ‘tell, don’t show’ rhetorical approach as a tool for resistance against fair-right domination of the image economy. In the tradition of documentary, we cannot categorise Jordan Lord’s latest film, Concealed and Denied. This isn’t only because it deals with the rapidly evolving culture of social media politics, or…
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With this crazed symphony, James Richards brings together four years of works to create a hallucinatory experience for the hysteria of our times. The umbrella name given to the three distinct chapters of James Richards’ latest work at Sylvia Kouvali is perhaps the best way to describe the feeling that flows between the varying images.…
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Despite its far-reaching geographical and historical subject, the themes of home and belonging make the eponymous “ground” unmistakably East London, the area in which it rightfully won awards last year. It should come as no surprise that The Ground Beneath Me, a project consisting of the filmic work Legacy of a Heart’s Injury (2026–) and…
