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Ksenia M. Soboleva

Ksenia M. Soboleva is a New York-based writer and art historian specializing in queer art and culture, with a particular focus on lesbian visibility. She received her PhD from the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU.

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Contemporary Iranian Art That Doesn’t Shy Away from Politics

by Ksenia M. Soboleva February 3, 2022February 4, 2022

Fighting the Western perception of Iran as a hostile war zone, Mohammed Afkhami began collecting artworks by Iranian artists to highlight the country’s rich cultural production.

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The Punk Marie Antoinette of the 1970s New York Art Scene

by Ksenia M. Soboleva January 10, 2022January 12, 2022

In Colette Lumière’s world, the theatricality of Versailles meets the punk ethos of the Sex Pistols.

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The Queer Feminist Agenda of Wilder Alison’s Abstract Wool Paintings

by Ksenia M. Soboleva November 29, 2021November 29, 2021

Since 2014, Alison has been visually dissecting Monique Wittig’s novel The Lesbian Body, which theorizes the split subjectivity women experience in language, an inherently patriarchal structure.

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Betsy Damon’s Pioneering Ecofeminist Practice

by Ksenia M. Soboleva November 9, 2021November 10, 2021

Curated by Monika Fabijanska, Betsy Damon — Passages: Rites and Rituals pulls Damon’s performance practice out from oblivion.

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Pamela Council Looks to Black Vernacular Culture to Expose Social Inequality

by Ksenia M. Soboleva October 18, 2021October 18, 2021

Council often uses humor as a political tool to expose systems of power and inequality in a society in which even death carries a high price tag.

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A Tribute to Artists Lost to AIDS Left Me With Mixed Feelings

by Ksenia M. Soboleva July 28, 2021July 28, 2021

I have to credit David Zwirner for attempting to include the queer community, but I can’t help but feel conflicted about the whole initiative.

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Hugh Steers Melds Queerness and the Devotional

by Ksenia M. Soboleva March 16, 2021March 17, 2021

Working amid the AIDS crisis, Hugh Steers’s paintings exude a graceful, figurative style that went under-recognized during his brief lifetime.

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Gen Zers in Russia Are Using TikTok as a Catchy Tool of Political Resistance

by Ksenia M. Soboleva January 25, 2021January 26, 2021

In Russia, high schoolers have massively taken to TikTok to express their support of Alexei Navalny, the resolute opposition leader most feared by the Kremlin.

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The Delightfully Debased Art of Nicole Eisenman and Keith Boadwee

by Ksenia M. Soboleva January 19, 2021January 15, 2021

Contrary to the laconic distance experienced among Eisenman’s works, Boadwee’s radiates a frenetic energy that stimulates the senses.

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The Visceral Intimacy of Amy Sillman’s Drawings

by Ksenia M. Soboleva October 22, 2020December 7, 2020

Messy and tender, like a summer fling, Sillman’s drawings embody both the sense of decay and unyielding hunger for life that marks our current times.

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Nina Katchadourian’s Tribute to Political “Roads Not Taken”

by Ksenia M. Soboleva October 15, 2020November 5, 2020

An intriguing meditation on the flawed two-party system, the power of Katchadourian’s Monument to the Unelected lies in its ability to confront us with alternative histories.

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Documenting These Last Few Years In Order to Survive Them

by Ksenia M. Soboleva October 9, 2020November 5, 2020

Morgan Bassichis’s The Odd Years is a visual, poetic diary that is perhaps best read as an endurance piece.

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