Venice Highlights…

Here’s a list of who/what I got excited about in Venice… Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz’s installation Moving Backwards at the Swiss Pavilion – swishy curtain reminiscent of 2012 work Shoplifters, Shopgirls by Sophie Macpherson and Clare Stephenson. Charlotte Prodger and Laure Prouvost for Scotland and France respectively. Also old favs Ed Atkins, Rosemarie Trockel…

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It’s November 2019…finally!

And so Blade Runner is everywhere. Two of my favourite moments of BR in the media soup this month are: Stephen Collin’s strip for the Guardian last week – see it here  and BBC3’s The Essay 2019: The Year of Blade Runner – particularly Episode 2, Frances Morgan’s Sounds of the Future Past. And here’s a…

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Cathy Wilkes in Venice

Of course I’m biased, but Cathy’s show felt like an incredibly important part of the experience of this year’s biennale, carving out a contemplative space with tiny details, softly-made prints and works that needed my care and consideration at an empathic, human level. Difficult, beautiful ghosts. More on Cathy here. More Venice highlights to follow…

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Stan Douglas in Venice

While I enjoyed Stan Douglas’ photographs of ‘speculative histories’ which play sound with a detailed, rich and staged kind of realism, his new film Doppelgänger could have been made to order for me. Not only is it a story of an accidental doubling (or splitting maybe) of a black female astronaut set in a series hyper-real…

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The BR2049 – Baseline Test

I wish this was in the shops now… Until then, you can achieve a similar effect by asking a friend to shout Nabokov at you through the door of an airport toilet.

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6 Key artefacts in Blade Runner 2049

Consummate consumer (or at least, consummate oogler) of screen-used and associated product that I remain, this bonny article highlights Blade Runner 2049’s very deliberate item choices… Can’t believe I’ve not visited Film and Furniture before now. Got there via a frantic search for a vintage blanket which looked like The Shining carpet which I slept under…

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