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Square Moon

★★☆☆☆

On until 15 February 2025

The tragedy of a one-hit-wonder visual artist is that good painting or sculpture is harder to hum than a once-catchy tune. Lidén could be typecast by her 2010 billboard poster assemblies. Indeed, her practice has stayed close conceptually to their concerns since. This new show tries to repeat those works’ success quite literally, barely bothering to swap one backing track for another. Doing so, it misses that the world and Lidén have evolved in over a decade.

The billboard meditations on the city and the image are back, and this time they’re electric. But that’s not because they take from Rothko or Albers as they’d have you believe: each literally needs a plug socket. Museum benches propped up on stacks of card waste suggest that one should look at them with intent, without explaining why. A pair of mostly black videos cryptically set on a beach are the one source of true intrigue.

But this isn’t Times Square in a blackout. Lidén made so, so very many copies of these works that they overwhelmed her better judgment. Even the gallery deemed some redundant and it dismantled part of the exhibition halfway through to accommodate another artist’s show.


notes and notices are short and curt exhibition reviews. Read more:

Nicole Eisenman, What Happened at Whitechapel Gallery ★★★☆☆

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What Happened

★★★☆☆

There’s a Bosch hellscape dedicated to Trump and a whole “basket of deplorables” polishing their guns in a prepper cell.

Choon Mi Kim, ACID—FREEEE at Ginny on Frederick ★☆☆☆☆

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ACID—FREEEE

★☆☆☆☆

Some forms of abstraction simply scream ‘my kid could have made that’.

Noah Davis at The Barbican ★★★☆☆

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★★★☆☆

Davis’ canvases give an account of time more sensitively than the Victorian portrait photograph

Nanténé Traoré at Sultana and Amanda Wilkinson ★★☆☆☆

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She says it's the high energy

★★☆☆☆

Bodies clash with lights in front of Traoré’s Narcissus camera.

Justin Chance, Motherhood at Ginny on Frederick ★★☆☆☆

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Motherhood

★★☆☆☆

If only he stopped there.

Michaël Borremans, The Monkey at David Zwirner ★★★★★

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The Monkey

★★★★★

Borremans toys with his subjects, his audience, and with art history.

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