There are several elements to Subject, Silver, Prism . Silver ink is applied to blocks of black foam. A simple stand, reminiscent of cheap furniture, supports a drum constructed from deer hide stretched over plastic cooking bowls and held taut by the hide and twine. The tightness of the drum and the stiffness of its table offset the floppy softness of the black foam. The semantic and visual echo between the pots-and-pans drums of suburban children and the deer hide and wood drums of First Nations people are literally bound together in this piece.
Brian Jungen’s works create complex interrelationships between global consumer commodities and traditional First Nations objects. He often physically reworks brand-name products into forms associated with First Nations material culture, such as masks and teepees. More than a simple critique of American-European imperialism, Jungen’s hybrids are irreducible to either trajectory or even a one-way process of influence.
Each day, Yuji Agematsu smokes a pack of cigarettes and wanders the streets of New York City looking for trash...
Tender reading: A review of Loss Adjustment by Linda Collins | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles January 28, 2021 By Grace Foo (650 words, 3-minute read) Not many people can endure the traumatic experience of losing a child to suicide, let alone be of sound mind to write about it in a painfully self-aware manner...
Weekly Picks: Singapore (25 February – 3 March 2019) | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Weekly To Do February 25, 2019 Still Life by Checkpoint Theatre , opening 28 February, 72-13 Mohammed Sultan Road What happens when an artist picks up her paintbrush after a long hiatus? Does the body still remember what has been lived? Or are the senses dulled by time, the joints fused with experience? Still Life is an affecting look at life and art-making...
From dream to dystopia: The cultural critic in the age of pandemic | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Ryuji Miyamoto May 21, 2020 By Katrina Stuart Santiago (1,000 words, 6-minute read) February 2020 seems like years ago, and it feels like escapism to even go back to that time...
The two works in the Kadist collection, Observador Pasivo and 3600 besos por hora by Diaz are culled from a vast compilation of videos and performances for the camera...
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Office Lady with a Red Umbrella restages a figure from a 1980 postcard made from a photograph from 1950’s...
In Bodily Study of Unthinking Groups, Harrison combines two disparate materials into one stratified stack: automotive clay (used in detailing cars) forms the earthy base, while fragments of zebra skull become imbedded in this falsified soil...
Weekly Picks: Indonesia (11 - 17 March 2019) | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Weekly To Do March 11, 2019 Top Picks of Indonesia art events in Jakarta and Bandung from 11-17 March 2019 The Jakarta Arts Council and Bekraf is back with its Teater Arsip program...
Visitor numbers for UK museums show signs of recovery Art market Museums & heritage Exhibitions Books Podcasts Columns Technology Adventures with Van Gogh Search Search Museums news Visitor numbers for UK museums show signs of recovery Figures for the first half of 2023 show an increase over the year before, although still below their pre-Covid peaks Gareth Harris and Lee Cheshire 8 December 2023 Share Tate Britain’s rehang was revealed in May 2023...
Architectural details become abstracted renderings in Chris Wiley’s inkjet prints 11 and 20 (both 2012)...
Dmitry Rybolovlev and Yves Bouvier settle nine-year legal feud Art market Museums & heritage Exhibitions Books Podcasts Columns Technology Adventures with Van Gogh Search Search Art law news Dmitry Rybolovlev and Yves Bouvier settle nine-year legal feud The Russian oligarch had accused the Swiss businessman of swindling him out of €1.1bn by overcharging him on art Vincent Noce 8 December 2023 Share Yves Bouvier (left) and Dmitry Rybolovlev (right) Bouvier: Hpetit21; Rybolovlev: Francknataf An epic legal battle, which played out in courts around the world and mesmerised the art world for almost a decade, is finally over...
This artwork was part of a group of projects presented in the Japanese Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2013...