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Gasworks, 155 Vauxhall Street, London SE11 5RH
‘SECOND SEX WAR’ appears as a sharp analysis of the politics of ephemeral labour, using digital pornography as a case study and feminist critique as an investigative tool. Review by Chiara Cartuccia
247365 , 57 Stanton Street, NY, NY, 10002
Jon Pilkington employs failure as a strategy for success, routinely revisiting early motifs until any suggestion of clear hierarchy can reasonably be questioned. These repeated moves promise to remain un-finished, following a trajectory that picks up new traditions along the way and adding to an ever growing ancestry of the artist’s vocabulary.
Johannes Vogt Gallery, 55 Chrystie Street Suite 202, New York, NY 10002
Mark Horowitz approaches painting from a cinematographic standpoint, similar to the process of video making — from creative writing and mood boards, to casting, location scouting, propping, dialogue adaptation, establishing mise-en-scène, improvisation and editing — he chooses characters and backgrounds of display that fluctuate between landscapes, interiors and still lifes while enacting personas that could range from anywhere between Greek goddesses to the weather man.
Lismore Castle Arts, Lismore, Co. Waterford, Ireland
The tomb-like resonance of the hall with its obvious religious connotations lends the scene a sense of ancientness or even timelessness; the figure could be a sacred High King of Ireland lying in state. Paradoxically however, there is too something very present and pertinent about this strange body. Review by Fiona Haggerty
The Modern Institute, 14—20 Osborne Street, Glasgow G1 5QN
Artist collaborators Joanne Tatham & Tom O’Sullivan produce works that interrogate the roles and behaviours of contemporary art. At The Modern Institute, this is presented as a series of uneven, re-staged and re-positioned installations of past works that employ a palette of forms, motifs, patterns, titles, comic faces and images. Review by Alexander Hetherington
Eye Film Institute, IJpromenade 1 1031 KT Amsterdam
Close-up is a group exhibition that fully lives up to EYE Film Institute’s exploratory questioning of the nature of video art and its contexts within a wider visual art spectrum. Review by Laurence Scherz
The Birley, Town Hall Annexe, Preston PR1 2QE
Anneka French reviews a series of new steel and latex sculptures by Brian J Morrison, variously suspended, wedged, curved and grounded within the gallery space.
Rowing, 3 Leighton Place, London NW5 2QL
How can art production continue when resources become scarce? Or when large sections of the earth become uninhabitable? Or when financial crash after financial crash leaves our lives so precarious we can no longer find the spacious, free time for art-making? In using the techniques of the past, these artists also look tentatively forwards: the past, present and future collide. Review by Siobhan Leddy
Whitechapel Gallery, 77-82 Whitechapel High St, London E1 7QX
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This exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery is a real-time, IRL demonstration of the internet’s rebellious web of influence, revealing how it has blown apart human interaction, production and the way we inhabit the space around us. Indeed, the visitor occupies the gallery space as a kind of pixel, a cursor scrolling through dissonant, often disruptive works, flitting from one dark, digital corner to another as though clicking from tab to tab. Review by Phoebe Cripps
DREI, Arndtstrasse 4 D-50676 Cologne
Under the concept of Paradise, an allegorical figure of a lost origin and promised destination, Martin Soto Climent explores the writings of Korean philosopher Byung-Chul Han concerning respect and erotic experience. The artist proposes a way to liberate the identity of intimacy, consumed in our days under the rule of an overwhelming system.
Tile Project Space, Via Garian 64, Corner Viale Misurata, Milan
In her solo show at TILE Project Space Lucia Leuci reflects on the construction of identity during childhood and within the parental model. 'Bad mothers and creole kids' is a mise en scène of social behaviours through the construction of a incubator - a symbolic place where different experiences can live together without dominating each other.
Common Guild, 21 Woodlands Terrace, Glasgow, Lanarkshire G3 6DF
‘The End of Time’, features film, photography and drawing from Zaatari's expansive practice, devoted, since the late nineties, to exploring the effects of Lebanon’s post-war condition in psychological, social and cultural terms. Review by Katherine Pahar
