EUREKA, CALIFORNIA Morris Graves Museum of Art Burn Pile might function like a compass, redirecting our perception of truth to a sector located elsewhere, where logic does not apply.
Jasleen Kaur
GLASGOW Tramway As the exhibition title “Alter Altar” suggests, this is a place of fluidity, of ideas and events, of religious ritual alongside the unpredictability of everyday life.
Spiritual Labyrinth: A Conversation with Herman van Bergen
Recipient of the 2022 Innovator Award Herman van Bergen’s environmentally friendly Cathedral of Thorns, hovering between sculpture and architecture, consists of built-up acacia branches pressed into a mold and glued together to form airy building blocks.
From the Imagined World: A Conversation with Muhannad Shono
From ink drawings and photomontages born of inventive frustration to multidisciplinary installations that bring his private stories into the lived world—most dramatically in The Teaching Tree (Saudi pavilion, Venice Biennale, 2022)—he has devoted himself to reclaiming the line and the word, transforming them from tools of censorship and authority into expressions of free will.
William Edmondson and Brendan Fernandes
PHILADELPHIA Barnes Foundation Brendan Fernandes’s Returning to Before, commissioned by the Barnes Foundation in response to the exhibition “William Edmondson: A Monumental Vision,” proposes that gesture can reach back through time and connect us with the past.
Pipilotti Rist
HOUSTON Museum of Fine Arts Unlike much video art, which (for me, anyway) remains prohibitively esoteric, Rist’s work keeps accruing mainstream accessibility; in 2016, Beyoncé famously channeled the whimsical, eight-minute Ever is Over All (1997) in her music video Hold Up.
Beginnings and Endings: A Conversation with Emily Counts
Seattle-based Emily Counts takes a personal approach to sculpture, creating ceramic and mixed-media works based on memories that also leave ample space for interpretation. Sea of Vapors, her immersive installation at the Museum of Museums in Seattle (on view through September 1, 2023), leans into the narrative potential of ceramics.
Naturaleza espejada: Una Conversación con Fabiana Imola
Dueña de una mirada estética que hace foco en la naturaleza, la rosarina Fabiana Imola desarrolla una obra con una fuerte impronta abstracta pero que pone al espectador dentro de un universo vegetal inconfundible.
