Things I have seen with my eyes
Margaret Salmon, Mm & Sacred Paws @ The Tramway
Live score for Margaret’s Salmon’s Mm by Sacred Paws was exciting! Mm showing Berwick Speedway lads transforming from ordinary to adonis-y over a day, reduced to 30 minutes here. Sacred Paws caused dancing and warm feelings of admiration, made even cosier by the presence of favs. L and L.
Read MoreAlchemists and alchemical-like types…
…seem to spring up everywhere once you you get your eye in – all part of its symbolic mutability and whatnot. This week I have mostly been watching & reading, with Eggs and Aliens for The Curios Society as the excuse… The Holy Mountain, The Colour of Pomegranates, El Topo, Picnic at Hanging Rock, A…
Read MoreWe Are All Completely Free – Women Artists and Surrealism, Museo Picasso, Malaga
Oh boy. It’s been weeks, simply weeks hasn’t it? Still in my brain is this incredible show that I caught between cake, anchovy and rioja at the MUSEO PICASSO in MÁLAGA. Carrington, Oppenheim, Cahun… More on the show here. Here’s the PR: ‘WE ARE COMPLETELY FREE. WOMEN ARTISTS AND SURREALISM’ 09.10.2017 Transgressive and controversial, the…
Read MoreNew Look does Blade Runner 2049
It’s not just the jacket. There’s Joi and Luv too…
Read MoreAleksandra Vajd & Markéta Othová: What Is Life?
Aleksandra Vajd & Markéta Othová: What Is Life? – Street Level Photoworks “This exhibition presents current work by two eminent figures in Central and East European photography, Markéta Othová (1968, Prague) and Aleksandra Vajd (1971, Maribor, Slovenia). Othová is known, above all, for her series of large-format photographs, whose meaning is predominantly derived from the formal…
Read MoreSue Tompkins – Country Grammar
… while over the road it was like stepping back to 2004, to experience Sue’s incredible delivery of heart-jerking banalities. In a good way I mean. And Luke Fowler made a film of it.
Read MoreMartin Boyce – Light Years
Over at the Modern, exhausted 1920s sex workers of standard lamps slumped in 2001…
Read MoreIlana Halperin – Geologic Intimacy
A treat to catch Ilana’s work, especially since the show is officially down, and all the wonderful folk of PFP – thank you Patricia. Geologic Intimacy (Yu No Hana) “We are delighted to present a selection of Halperin’s new project Geologic Intimacy (Yu No Hana) in Glasgow, after being previously shown in Fujiya Gallery Hanayamomo,…
Read MoreSara Barker – The Faces of Older Images
Just caught the last of Sara’s show at the v. New Yorky new Mary Mary space. Thank you Hannah. “This exhibition brings together a group of four wall based relief sculptures, Barker’s most elaborate and monumental in the series of tray ‘trench-works’ she has been producing for a number of years. Blurring the lines between painting, drawing and…
Read MoreGoMA – umpteen things to see last week
The excuse was UoC Institute of the Arts education of the minds of others, the host was a possibly frazzled Will Cooper. Thank you to an exhausted GoMA for a terrifying, hilarious yet ultimately edifying insight into curatorial life. Starting from the top – hit it! Polygraphs is a group exhibition, centred around Abstract by Hito Steyerl, which…
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