Category: Review
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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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What does it mean to film a powwow? What does it mean for a powwow to take place now, in the 21st century? These are questions provoked by Sky Hopinka’s second feature, Powwow People (2025), which takes us into the heart of a powwow, a contemporary gathering of Native Americans, bringing together different tribes and…
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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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François Ozon slowly and meticulously reassembles Camus’ The Stranger to create one of the best adaptations put to screen. Albert Camus’ first novel, L’Etranger, is, by virtue of its philosophy, a tough one to adapt to screen. What is, in many ways, a celebration of fatalism, doesn’t quite gel with the neoliberal inevitability that has…
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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…
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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…
