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Hard Truths: Can an Unsung Surrealist Rise from the Dead?
A family hopes to get some attention for a great-grandfather whose time has expired.
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Mai-Thu Perret’s Fictional Objects
The Swiss sculptor gives form to utopian narratives and makes feminist fantasy tactile.
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In Witty Installations, Alexander Si Plays Anthropologist, Studying White Culture of the Recent Past
Si's portraits of recent pop culture phenomena, like #FreeBritney and Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop, convey the dystopic qualities of the present.
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Liao Wen’s Dislocated Bodies
A Chinese sculptor twists and stylizes figures to echo Greek myth and contemporary social displacement.
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Widline Cadet Explores How Images Echo Across Time and Space
Juxtaposing old family snapshots with more contemporary images of friends, strangers, and domestic scenes, Cadet uses photography as an expansive mode of finding connections.
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Photographer Laurie Kang Ditches the Image, Turning Her Medium into a Material
The Toronto artist's gorgeous installations comprise self-critical photographs.
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On Opacity
Many artists today resist "representation" and cross-cultural legibility. But the task poses countless challenges.
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ASMA Plays with the Iconography of Fantasy and Fairy Tales
The Mexico City–based duo uses unconventional materials to create dreamlike renderings of mythic creatures and stories.
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Suneil Sanzgiri Looks Back at India’s Anticolonial Histories
Drawing on his own family stories and personal memories, the experimental filmmaker explores the ongoing legacies of imperialism in South Asia.
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Astrid Terrazas Paints Fantasy, Folklore, and Family into Enigmatic Scenes
In her painted incantations, personal mythologies and social allegories recombine into different realities.
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