WAKEFIELD, U.K. The Hepworth Wakefield The rhythms activated by light across a sculpture’s negative spaces could be manipulated in the same way as the form itself.
Jeneen Frei Njootli
VANCOUVER Macaulay + Co. Deftly combining sculpture, photography, performance, and poetry, Frei Njootli’s meditations on Indigenous sovereignty, decolonization, and the body read like a nuanced, multifaceted story that takes off from and remains grounded in place, time, and memory.
“Forest of Dreams: Contemporary Tree Sculpture”
GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park Rather than a strict arrangement or an all-out sprawl, the show unfolded in four porous sections that encouraged cross-referencing.
Thomas Hirschhorn
NEW YORK Gladstone Gallery The cardboard suggested—symbolically—that we’ve mastered the art of packaging and marketing our wars, and that the lives of others come cheap.
Jessica Jackson Hutchins
SEATTLE Frye Art Museum Beyond the art historical references, Hutchins’s work involves so many Americana-related themes—building, sewing, lounging, eating, trashing—that it’s hard to keep track of where and how she has traveled.
Construyendo identidades específicas: Una Conversación con Samantha Ferro
Con amplia formación práctica en talleres, seminarios y clínicas de perfeccionamiento en el campo de las artes visuales, fotografía y diseño de indumentaria, la obra de Samantha Ferro opera en torno a la problemática del cuerpo como territorio donde se definen las construcciones de identidades específicas a partir del uso, mal uso y abuso del cuerpo.
Michael Rakowitz
GATESHEAD, U.K. Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art Tended largely by community members who have experienced forced displacement and are seeking refuge in the area, this is a garden among the ruins. Like all of Rakowitz’s works, it bears witness, serving as a metaphor for the overlapping histories of war, oppression, migration, trauma, and adaptation that affect cultural objects and plant life, as well as people.
Katie Cuddon
NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, U.K. Hatton Gallery “A is for Alma” reveals Cuddon’s progressive experience of rediscovering her individuality as the infant grows into newfound independence and reliance on communication through the body gives way to the acquisition of language.
Part Of It: A Conversation with Ranjani Shettar
Every aspect of Ranjani Shettar’s artistic practice is rooted in the natural world. Her studio, where she often works out of doors, is located in rural Karnataka in India. That local context is important since she draws on established craft traditions to find the tools and techniques that might be adapted to contemporary sculpture.
Making Contact: A Conversation with Andrés Aizicovich
Artist and inventor Andrés Aizicovich uses his objects and installations as a means to reimagine the dynamics of communication. Suspicious of the hyper-connectivity of modern life and concerned by the deterioration of the social fabric, he aims to restore the power of perception while encouraging collaborative encounters through alternative forms of contact and interaction.
