STOCKHOLM Bonniers Konsthall While these meditative works convey solitude, stasis, and detachment, they also—like life’s transitory stages—embody transformation.
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Soojin Kang
LONDON Gathering There is something otherworldly about Kang’s humanoid sculptures. Sentinels of time and space, they double as bearers of the unconscious, channeling the unexamined, the unseen, the unresolved and sparking a momentary meeting of minds that establishes a dialectic between Kang’s experience of making and our experience of looking.
Wangechi Mutu
NEW YORK New Museum Water laps and pools, filling the vessel with poetic possibility as it becomes a fountain, a tub offering a restorative, healing bath, and a conduit of symbolic passage.
Zineb Sedira
BERLIN Hamburger Bahnhof In these film selections, Sedira seems to imply that emancipation is always entangled with fabrication, with making things up.
Sonic Objects: A Conversation with Tarek Atoui
Most people find the sound of a dripping faucet irritating. But Tarek Atoui, a multimedia visual artist and musician, hears the water drip as one tiny note orchestrating the music of the spheres.
Sonia Boyce
MARGATE, U.K. Turner Contemporary Boyce’s videos of this session reveal how the participants grew in trust and how their improvised collaborations became increasingly confident and playful, questioning authority and authorship.
Arthur Simms
LOS ANGELES Karma Improvisatory and yet obsessive, Arthur Simms’s sculptures manifest the intensity of his process. His work is provocative, compelling, hard to look at—and at least part of its power comes from his drive to make such fierce, volatile, and demanding objects.
Simone Leigh
Boston ICA/Boston Through September 4, 2023 Simone Leigh’s exhibition at the ICA/Boston (traveling to the Hirshhorn in fall 2023, and to LACMA and CAAM in summer 2024) includes 10 works from Leigh’s historic presentation for the U.S.
