Project Type: Art Writing
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Moyra Davey | Moyra Davey
This review was published in Prefix Photo magazine in November 2019. Moyra Davey is the recipient of the eighth annual Scotiabank Photography Award, an accolade previously granted to celebrated Canadian artists including Stan Douglas, Suzy Lake, Arnaud Maggs, and Shelley Niro. This ambitious monograph, which accompanied a retrospective exhibition at Ryerson Image Centre, surveys of […]
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The Hydrocephalus Suite
The Hydrocephalus Suite is composed of three texts, commissioned and recorded by SHELL LIKE, for their audio residency on ilyd.nu in November 2018. The Hydrocephalus Suite was also included in a series of sound baths alongside audio works by Madeleine Stack and Leyla Pillai and sculpture by Hannah Rowan as part of I’m in the bath […]
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Lost Gazes | Iris Häussler
Published by Canadian Art on March 21, 2019. In a letter dated November 2016, Iris Häussler writes to long-deceased painter Sophie La Rosière: “Having entered this room, trembling, I hid myself behind the mirror and looked through the cracked silver. It is this reflecting glass that separates worlds. While I watched you, one hundred years melted […]
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After London; or Apparitions of nested time
The following is an excerpt from an essay entitled “After London; or Apparitions of nested time” that appeared in THE END, the final issue of KAPSULA magazine in September 2016. A pdf of the entire issue is available for free download here. The event occurred on December 12, 2015. I had been living in London for three years. My […]
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A Framework for Collective Decanting
The following text was written in collaboration with Jennifer Boyd as the culmination of Reading Matter, a curatorial project that staged a collective reading of The Passion According to G.H. by Clarice Lispector at Five Years Gallery, London, in May 2016. It was published in the anthology How to Read: Writing Groups. How to Write: Reading Groups, which is available […]
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Channa Horwitz | Channa Horwitz
Published by this is tomorrow on April 20, 2016. Throughout her artistic career, which spanned more than five decades, Channa Horwitz consistently produced works based upon the number eight. The exhibition of her work at Raven Row, the first large institutional show in the UK of her extraordinary drawings, thus acts as a testament to a lifelong […]
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The Forever Loop | Eddie Peak
Published by this is tomorrow on December 14, 2015. Eddie Peake’s takeover of the Barbican’s Curve gallery is composed of 29 works across a range of media, however the exhibition comes together into a single ‘Gesamkunstkwerk’, with all disparate elements falling into a single, measured programme. The resulting experience is definitive of Peake’s aesthetic and thus the […]
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Vital Plastics
The following is an excerpt from ‘Vital Plastics’, a short story published in The Happy Hypocrite 8, edited by Sophia Al-Maria and published by Book Works in September 2015. Available to purchase from Book Works. […] She preferred brightly coloured bags that would tint the world orange or lend her face a blue cast. She tilted her […]
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Papagaio | João Maria Gusmão + Pedro Paiva
Published by this is tomorrow on March 24, 2015. Papagaio (Djambi), the titular work in Joao Maria Gusmão and Pedro Paiva’s exhibition at Camden Arts Centre, bears witness to a West African voodoo ritual in the former Portuguese colony of Sao Tome and Principe. The participants spin wildly in inebriated ecstasy around a fire – […]
Alex Borkowski 