Art Review
The Canary in the Turbine Hall
Máret Ánne Sara contends that the destruction of Samí lands foreshadows similar threats to more temperate regions and calls for alternative frameworks of knowledge.
Anna Souter
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Tapestries That Contain the World
Nour Jaouda creates a patchwork space where history, memory, and landscape are made, mourned, and ever-returning.
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Emily Kam Kngwarray’s Language of Country
The late Anmatyerr artist honored the nonhuman ecologies and ancestral narratives at the heart of Aboriginal life.
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An Insider Artist’s Outsider Alter-Ego
A recurring lack of nuance plagues Grayson Perry’s exhibition at the Wallace Collection, which explores history, gender, class, and mental illness.
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The Life-or-Death Art of Hamad Butt
A survey centers the threat of disease and the complex, often contradictory emotions stirred up by the risk of contagion.
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Giuseppe Penone Captures the Breath of the World
A show takes us inside the practice of an artist who has been meditating on the climate for more than 50 years.
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Dana Awartani’s Gentle Reparation of Gaza
This beautiful and understated show provides a moving foil to the horror of Israel’s war in Palestine.
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The Sensual Irreverence of Milly Thompson
Throughout her work, we see women attempting to free themselves from the entanglements of patriarchy.
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Linder’s Monstrous Pop Cultural Assemblages
The artist’s surgical photomontages offer insight into the gendered desire and commercialism at the heart of patriarchal capitalism.
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The Violent and Sensual Bodies of Galli
The artist’s ambiguous figures exist in a continual state of metamorphosis between formation and deformation.
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The Living Divinations of Ithell Colquhoun
The artist’s dreamy paintings and drawings transcend any specific culture, instead drawing on a perennial understanding of the sacred.
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The Unlikely Muse of Soil
The earth itself is fertile artistic ground at Somerset House — but the exhibition stops short of getting visitors’ hands dirty, even in imagination.