This show could have been solid five-star material. But I only got to see it through the gallery’s window because the staff didn’t let me come in a quarter of an hour before their official preview even though the door was wide open. That’s for the best because what I did see – paintings of foliage familiar in style from Ikea wallpapers that the press release claims are metaphors for “colonisation and migration of bodies across the Atlantic” – deserved even less attention.
Kevin Brisco Jr But I Hear There Are New Suns
Kevin Brisco Jr
But I Hear There Are New Suns
★★☆☆☆
On until 18 November 2023
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Veronica Ryan
Veronica Ryan
Multiple Conversations
★★☆☆☆
The impulse at play is that repetition makes up for an idea by sheer volume. It doesn’t.
Marina Abramović
Marina Abramović
7 Deaths of Maria Callas
★☆☆☆☆
Abramović wants to destroy all performance and all women until she holds the monopoly over stage death.
Christopher Aque, Alexandre Khondji
Christopher Aque, Alexandre Khondji
★★★★★
Aesthetic cognition or crossword puzzles only rarely bring such perverse pleasure.
Sula Bermúdez-Silverman
Sula Bermúdez-Silverman
Bad Luck Rock
★★☆☆☆
This is a poor man’s version of history or a philistine collector’s absolution.
Alia Farid
Alia Farid
Elsewhere
★★★☆☆
There is no answer in the work. Its cause and the object become enmeshed in a bland, exoticized mess.
Belarus Free Theatre
Belarus Free Theatre
Official. Unofficial.
★★☆☆☆
Art matters neither to the dictator nor his opponents.
