David Roberts Art Foundation, Symes Mews, London NW1 7JE
Fiona Banner’s latest exhibition is punctuated by the small markings, lines, curves and scribbles that make up language. Neon commas and beanbag full stops pepper the space, between which spoken words and illuminated letters inject meaning to join up the dots. Review by Phoebe Cripps
The White Building Hackney Wick London
The first LADA Screens of 2016 event is ‘And I’, a collaboration between artist and experimental filmmaker, Reynir Hutber, and many-storied artist and notorious orator, Marcia Farquhar. Showing 12pm - 8pm 24th February at the Live Art Development Agency's event space
Camden Arts Centre, Arkwright Road, London NW3 6DG
The process-oriented concerns of the ‘post-minimalist’ generation seem to haunt this body of work. This is not to say Roithmayr simply rehashes their strategies - instead he complicates and elaborates the way process is understood. Review by Luke Naessens
l'étrangère, 44a Charlotte Road, London EC2A 3PD
From participant to observer to collector, the tripartite objects suggest we have shifted how we view our personal and cultural histories. If the first space signifies a certain alienation, then the works in the second attempt to reclaim ownership of the past. Betsy Porritt reviews
TheGallery, Arts University Bournemouth, Wallisdown, Poole, Dorset, BH12 5HH
Curated by Art Historian Dr. Ian Massey, this major exhibition of Patrick Procktor's paintings, drawings, watercolours and prints traces the prolific artist’s career over the course of four decades.
General Prim 30, Colonia Juarez & Casa Pedregal, Avenida de Las Fuentes 180, Jardines del Pedregal, Mexico City
'Snow White and the Huntsman' takes its title from the 2012 motion picture starring Kristen Stewart as Snow White and Chris Hemsworth as the Huntsman; a movie which was met with little interest at the box office, but has made headlines for what happened behind the scenes.
Arnolfini, 16 Narrow Quay, Bristol BS1 4QA
'Vertigo Sea’ functions as an expanded visual essay. The brutal plurality of content within it, whaling; polar bear hunting; nuclear tests; slavery; migration; drowned boats, all converge into violent and unflinching images. Review by Philomena Epps
Berlin
It is not unknown for academics to reference popular culture in their keynotes, but the lyrics and the themes of the new Beyonce video ‘Formation’ - surveillance, police violence and climate change - seemed to particularly resound throughout the closing keynote of the latest edition of Berlin’s Transmediale Festival and indeed in the excellent video selection at CTM’s New Geographies exhibition, 'Seismographic Sounds - Visions of a New World'. Review by Rob La Frenais
Cuchifritos Gallery + Project Space, 120 Essex Street NY, NY 10002
‘(a(version)s)’, presented at Cuchifritos Gallery + Project Space, highlights the original compositions of ten sound artists who examine the formal and conceptual use of sampling—the act of appropriating pre-recorded sound. Review by Lynnette Miranda
Zabludowicz Collection, 176 Prince of Wales Road, London NW5 3PT
In three new works installed in the Zabludowicz Collection, Jemma Egan examines wildly popular pizza franchise Domino’s. Fast food is not a common subject for art, but the industry’s manipulations of technology and spectacle deserve closer analysis. Luke Naessens reviews
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The artist critically engages with the embodied experience of consuming content via our phones – an intimate, gratifying, yet invasive interaction. Lynnette Miranda reviews Perce Jerrom on Instagram-based video channel DVD IS DEAD.
Edel Assanti, 74A Newman Street, London W1T 3DB
I am confronted with a void, a chasm, some kind of great black hole. As I stand there I gradually feel as if the exhibition space is drifting away and what I’m actually surrounded by is more of a theatre set. Theo Turpin responds to 'people sometimes, die'
APALAZZOGALLERY, Piazza Tebaldo Brusato, 35 25121 Brescia, Italy
Jonas Mekas' visual diaries compose a great tale that celebrates the course of existence between banality and lyricism. 'All These Images, These Sounds' continues the artist's body of work created for the Venice Biennale in 2015.
