London-based French artist Marguerite Humeau performs wide-ranging, research-based excavations of the past to distill new forms—often sculptures—that speculate on presents that might have been, and futures that may still arrive.
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Simone Leigh
BOSTON Institute of Contemporary Art Simone Leigh’s first-ever museum retrospective demonstrates her abiding use of clay (and nascent use of bronze) as a material and conceptual means to amplify Black female experiences and the spaces created by Black feminists.
Poética de lo incierto: Una Conversación con Cynthia Kampelmacher
Con una obra que hace pie en el dibujo, Cynthia Kampelmacher, artista visual, Licenciada en Artes Visuales por la Universidad Nacional de las Artes (UNA) y docente, genera desde la línea una proyección fuera del plano, para crear espacialidad desde sutiles hasta grandes instalaciones.
Personal Mythology: A Conversation with Sophie Ryder
“All of Us,” Sophie Ryder’s current exhibition at The Lightbox in Woking, England, near London, features over 50 examples of her anthropomorphic dream imagery—ladyhares, minotaurs, boars, and dogs, as well as dislocated representations of eyes, hands, and feet, all magically juxtaposed across the exhibition space.
Sarah Sze: Timelapse
New York Guggenheim Museum Through September 10, 2023 On the sixth level of the Guggenheim’s rotunda, Sarah Sze’s “Timelapse” features a string of site-specific installations created by the New York-based artist that address an image- and motion-saturated world, wherein the distinction between images and objects collapse.
Felt History: A Conversation with Abigail DeVille
Abigail DeVille lets objects reveal America’s invisible histories. Her recent solo shows in New York—“Bronx Heavens” (Bronx Museum of the Arts, 2022–23), “Original Night” (Eric Firestone Gallery, 2022), and “In the fullness of time, the heart speaks truths too deep for utterance, but a star remembers.”
Concrete Things and Momentary Places: A Conversation with Hu Xiaoyuan
Beijing-based sculptor Hu Xiaoyuan takes a thoughtful, philosophical approach to contemporary art. Both an installation artist and a creator of individual objects, she is as concerned with the idea of form as its physical existence, investigating the three-dimensional as site as well as object.
Engagement and Agency: A Conversation with Jennifer Marman and Daniel Borins
For more than two decades, Jennifer Marman and Daniel Borins have been making sculpture, installation, and media art in Toronto. They often break conventional barriers between viewer and artwork, using interactivity to engage beyond the visual.
Amalia Mesa-Bains
BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA BAMPFA Mesa-Bains has often spoken about how scent is a powerful trigger for memory; in many instances, she doubles down on such devices for stimulating the recall of emotions with her Wunderkammer-like collections of objects and images, adding layers of complication.
Grada Kilomba
NEW YORK Pace Representing the ocean or a guardian female deity, the cloth is a synecdoche for a long history of migration journeys across global waters.
