Prism of Relations: the 2022 Toronto Biennial
The biennial's curators asked how land might be an archive, prompting reflections on human conflicts over land as well as visions for alternate relations.
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Valérie Blass Makes Figurative Sculptures without the Figure
Valérie Blass creates assemblages and sculptural tableaux that portray the human form using a kind of shorthand, alluding to the body through objects rather than depicting it outright.
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Mark Lewis
There is no narrative or single character to weave the films together. Instead, Lewis's portrait is additive: each distinct location, subject, and perspective layer one upon the other.
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Ydessa Hendeles
The art of Ydessa Hendeles intersects with her parallel collecting and curatorial practices.
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Iris Häussler
In past works, Iris Häussler has subsumed her identity in fictional artistic personae. Presenting “The Sophie La Rosière Project” (2009–) in concurrent exhibitions at the Art Gallery of York Universit…
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Franz Erhard Walther
German artist Franz Erhard Walther’s interactive sculptures, made using primarily cloth, do not merely restrict bodily movement. They also direct users’ attention to the way their bodies relate to obj…
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Charles Stankievech
The centerpiece of Charles Stankievech’s solo exhibition at the Prefix ICA was The Soniferous Æther of the Land Beyond the Land Beyond (2013), a 35mm film installation featuring black-and-white…
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“Flesh Marble Leaf & Twig”
In Athens hundreds of buildings lie abandoned, but rarely unused. Some bear scrawled and stenciled reactions to Greece’s economic crisis; others accommodate people made homeless by it. The city’s cult…
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“The Unfinished Conversation: Encoding/Decoding”
“Though the production structures of television originate the television discourse,” Stuart Hall once argued, “they do not constitute a closed system. They draw topics, treatments, agendas, events, pe…
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