Project Type: Review
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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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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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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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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 