Tag: London
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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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The collage films of Ebun Sodipo both invite and resist easy watching. In Nasty Girl 2 (The Beast) (2024), clips of supermodel Connie Fleming and reality star Tiffany Pollard appear side by side on top of a larger video of a raging fire, while a snippet plays from Megan Thee Stallion’s fast-paced, high-energy and bass-heavy…
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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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Now on its seventh run, the Queer East Festival has firmly established itself as London’s go-to place for East Asian cinema that explores the queer condition. Participating in the festival’s Future Film Curators Lab, Shimeng Wang presented Acting Up, a series of shorts centred on the relationship between queerness and performance. For many queer people,…
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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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For their eleventh fair, which opens in Kensington’s Olympia centre this week, Photo London is introducing a moving image programme. Previously held in Somerset House, Photo London has moved to the redeveloped Olympia. The move has allowed for an expanded programme now including a section exclusively for moving-image works. The programme includes films by Melissa…
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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…
