CAMBRIDGE, ONTARIO, CANADA Cambridge Art Galleries So, if Lane’s work has sundered the claims of the utile, does it represent a frontal attack on the lineage of the Duchampian readymade? Think about it: these pieces have, as their origins, objects that might have been used on a daily basis with nary a second thought.
Phillip Lai
BRISTOL, U.K. Spike Island Lai’s quotidian forms—bowls, basins, trays—signify sustenance and care but are emptied of any metaphorical intent.
Anila Quayyum Agha
SEATTLE Asian Art Museum By re-creating patterns and designs found in South Asian shrines, tombs, mosques, and palaces and literally projecting them onto viewers, Agha democratizes motifs that have often been employed in spaces marked by gendered and class-based divisions—arguably more in the spirit of Islam’s original intent than what it has become.
Failure as Methodology: A Conversation with Andrew Gannon
Edinburgh-based Andrew Gannon—along with 2025 Turner Prize winner Nnena Kalu, Daisy Lafarge, and Jo Longhurst, the three other artists currently featured in “We Contain Multitudes” at Dundee Contemporary Arts (DCA) in Scotland—makes work from a position of disability, in his case a congenital limb difference.
Elisabetta Di Maggio
TURIN Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea Di Maggio’s technical language embraces mutability. Her work suggests organic remnant, decorative product, and artwork; and her co-ordination of eye, hand, and sharp-pointed instrument can fool the observer into imagining a machine was involved rather than a human.
Intérprete del espacio cotidiano: Una Conversación con Daniel Basso
Daniel Basso, nacido en Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires, cursa estudios de pintura en la Escuela Superior de Artes Visuales Martín Malharro de su ciudad. Desde 2002, desarrolla una obra que él mismo calificada como “una interpretación del espacio en función de fenómenos formales que provienen de la observación de entornos urbanos y domésticos,” utilizando
“How To Dream Worlds”
SINGAPORE Singapore Art Museum By recognizing the spatiality of human life, SAM’s biennial posed thoughtful questions about the onset of a new era of crisis associated with the post-modernization of the contemporary world.
Maneuvering the Consequences: A Conversation with Alison Hiltner
Recipient Of The 2024 Innovator Award Minneapolis-based Alison Hiltner expertly merges science fiction, technology, and the human experience into multimedia, experiential installations that embrace curiosity and a deep sense of wonder. Touch, time, and a keen sense of the absurd feature heavily in her works, provoking unusual connections and insights.
