Exhibitions / Curators / Artists

Reviews

Critical readings of exhibitions, the curatorial decisions that organise them and the artists whose practices resist—or exceed—those frameworks.

01 Zero Degree of Image Vol. 1: Wu Di at START Museum

START Museum · Shanghai · Critical desk review

An image never starts from zero

Wu Di strips pictures from their appointed histories, but they do not arrive empty.

02 Duan Jianyu at UCCA Beijing

UCCA Beijing · Beijing · Critical desk review

The ordinary refuses to behave

Duan Jianyu’s unruly images test whether six curatorial chapters can preserve their disorder.

03 Carsten Höller: Two at UCCA Beijing

UCCA Beijing · Beijing · Critical desk review

Doubt, doubled and priced

Carsten Höller: Two turns uncertainty into an exhibition system—and private immersion into a premium product.

04 Vantage Point 13 at Sharjah Art Foundation

Sharjah Art Foundation · Sharjah · Critical desk review

Who is allowed to document whom?

Six commissions test whether documentary photography can acknowledge the unequal terms under which images are made.

05 Olalekan Jeyifous at Walker Art Center

Walker Art Center · Minneapolis · Critical desk review

A river archive without a single origin

Olalekan Jeyifous brings diasporic cosmology, Indigenous water knowledge and industrial memory into a speculative river system.