Justin Chance

Motherhood

★★☆☆☆

On until 26 October 2024

Quilt me a story. Chance’s wool fibre hangings stuffed between silk sheets set off accidental abstractions. One hides the outlines of a Leonardo cartoon. Another’s single blemish becomes a Caribbean island. Coming to the third which is densely marked as if it were a budget Basquiat, the mind is primed to play along with the artist’s unwitting trick. 

An intricate woven butterfly atlas completes the set. If only Chance stopped there. He also wrote two versions of his show’s press release but still somehow made no sense of his story. His barely comprehensible copy stitches a juvenile historical grievance into the chaos of a butterfly’s flutter. These ideas rob the works of authenticity. Their grammar, worse than is customary of the genre, turns the show into a joke. 


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Jasper Marsalis,  \m/’ at Emalin ★★★★☆

Jasper Marsalis

\m/'

★★★★☆

The circus is in town, its acts are the infrastructure of contentment.

Oriol Vilanova: Los restos at the Spanish pavilion in Venice ★★★★☆

Oriol Vilanova

Los restos

★★★★☆

The dance of constellations that make up the Western civilisation inspires awe.

Merike Estna: The House of Leaking Sky at the Estonian pavilion, Venice ★★☆☆☆

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The House of Leaking Sky

★★☆☆☆

A racket not useful for sport.

Shu Lea Cheang at Project Native Informant ★★☆☆☆

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Scifi New Queer Cinema, 1994-2023

★★☆☆☆

With material this gratuitously explicit and a curator this absent, it’s a miracle that this project wasn’t shut down by the licencing, or indeed art-historical authorities.

Elena Njoabuzia Onwochei-Garcia: Grown at William Hine ★★★★☆

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★★★★☆

These fables are pure pleasure to narrate, yet their references overwhelm.

Odoteres Ricardo de Ozias at David Zwirner ★★★☆☆

Odoteres Ricardo de Ozias

★★★☆☆

These images are perfectly charming even to a viewer possessed of a cold anthropological eye. The troubling part is in realising just how far ‘outside’ the ideas are.

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