Kevin Brisco Jr

But I Hear There Are New Suns

★★☆☆☆

On until 18 November 2023

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.


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Nikita Gale, Blur Ballad at Emalin ★★☆☆☆

Nikita Gale

Blur Ballad

★★☆☆☆

Even though the show brings together a few unusual tricks, they are disjointed and leave little for the eye to linger on.

Iris Touliatou, Outfits at PEER ★★★☆☆

Iris Touliatou

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★★★☆☆

These gestures remind the gallery that it is a social space. Unfortunately, they also inadvertently point to its sorry end.

Joanne Burke, Oes with works like Esses at Soft Opening ★★★★☆

Joanne Burke

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★★★★☆

Hot metal is that, like water, it spills away from the mould.

Condo: The Ambassadors at Wien at Ginny on Frederick ★☆☆☆☆

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Condo: The Ambassadors

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Everything about this show feels lazy.

Li Yi-Fan: Screen Melancholy at Taiwanese pavilion in Venice ★★★☆☆

Li Yi-Fan

Screen Melancholy

★★★☆☆

Characters lose themselves in screens-within-screens.

Jordan Derrien, Painted on a Wall of the Inn at Marlotte at Des Bains ★★☆☆☆

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Painted on a Wall of the Inn at Marlotte

★★☆☆☆

Derrien has his audience discussing the nature of paint drying out loud.

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