Yet Another Art Blog

Upon entering the first room of The Sun Falls Silently, Thao Nguyen Phan’s exhibition at the Palais de Tokyo, an idea seized me. Since Plato—or perhaps even earlier—the cave has stood as a metaphor for ignorance, concealment, even barbarism. It is an architecture of shadows, a chamber of falsehoods, opposed to the surface, to light,…

Historiquement, l’ornement a souvent été relégué au rang d’élément secondaire, simple parure venant habiller un ensemble plus vaste. Dépourvu d’histoire, hors narration, parfois même hors du temps, il se fait témoin discret de récits grandioses sans jamais occuper le premier plan. Dans la peinture de la Renaissance, par exemple, la nature n’est qu’accessoire : réduite…

Albeit defined as a retrospective tracing Mohamed Bourouissa’s career, Signal, curated by Hugo Vitrani at the Palais de Tokyo, is more akin to a garden of forking paths. A dual citizen, born in Algeria and raised in France, Bourouissa’s work focuses on themes relating to the imprisonment of both the body and mind, policing, resilience,…

S’il fallait placer le déracinement sur la carte du corps humain, il se logerait sans doute dans les tripes et la gorge — dans ces cavités où le vide prend forme et s’étire. Le déracinement est une oscillation, un va-et-vient incessant, comme une vague qui se retire pour mieux revenir, doublée d’une force qui nous…

Quiénes nos subieron el dolorde esas montañas se van diciendo las inmensaspraderas del cielo … Somos todos los pastos deeste mundo les contestanRaúl Zurita, Primer canto de los ríos. In the last ten years, we’ve seen an increasing interest in textile artworks. Artists such as Anni Albers, Sonia Delaunay, Sheila Hicks and more seized the…

En la energía de la memoria  la Tierra vive y en ella la sangre de los  Antepasados ¿Comprenderás, comprenderás  por qué –dice aún deseo soñar en este Valle? Elicura Chihuailaf, Aún deseo soñar en este valle For the Mapuche people, blue is a sacred color signifying endless skies, flowing waters, powerful cascades, and the vigor…

At the dawn of time, when animals, trees, rocks, and other elements of the world were still non-existent, the gods took it upon themselves to create life—and with it, humanity. The first humans, however, were not considered worthy of their creators, for they lacked substance. The gods thus produced successive versions until humans could properly…

The conflict between soul and our transient form has haunted Western idiosyncratics and divided our bodies and minds into separate realms. The partition of these supposedly opposite forces resulted in a binary configuration, a hierarchy dictating core concepts such as gender, nation, nature, which in turn deepened differences and created segregated environments. Akira Ikezoe’s work…

Dans la tiédeur de la nuit, is the latest exhibition presented at the Parisian gallery Marcelle Alix, and features the work of artists Tirdad Hashemi, Mira Schor and Michael Dean. At first glance exhibiting dissimilar creators, the show delves on the representation of vulnerable bodies, both in the public and the private sphere.  Michael Dean,’s…

2020 will be remembered as a year of reflection and self-examination, a year that urged us all to assess our actions and our way of life. The exhibition Cold Open by the artist Hugo Avigo at Galerie Chloé Salgado, places the audience right in the middle of contemplative landscapes transporting us to farther lands, where…