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.
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.
“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.
Enrico David
TURIN Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Castello di Rivoli The essence of drawing, its linearity and spatiality, are never fully lost, and David’s willingness to get under the hood of an artform is one of his work’s strongest appeals.
Hilary Harnischfeger
NEW YORK Uffner & Liu Depending on whether the edges are in view, one’s impulse to read these forms in terms of the geologic record or cartographic tradition varies.
Rebecca Manson
SAN FRANCISCO Jessica Silverman From a distance, the tiny ceramic elements create an almost mesmerizing shimmer of color, not unlike the light-catching microscopic scales of genuine insect wings.
