Art Review
Sammy Baloji Mines Congo’s Hidden Histories
By incorporating the colonial archive in his works, Baloji shows how the sinister apparatus of the “civilizing mission” led to the negation and erasure of Congo's past.
Yota Batsaki
Yota Batsaki is the executive director of Dumbarton Oaks, a Harvard research institute, museum, and historic garden in Washington, DC, where she directs the Plant Humanities Initiative.
Art
Artists Find Energy Justice in Grassroots Acts
Energies at the Swiss Institute brings an archival and contemporary lens to questions of energy justice through a sharply curated artist cohort.
Art
Penny Siopis’s “Poetics of Vulnerability”
Siopis’s practice draws on many theoretical currents, but concept is not allowed to dominate matter or empty it of its tactile, sensuous appeal and, often, horror.
Art
Georges Adéagbo Channels a Humanized Abraham Lincoln
Adéagbo teases out the exploitative and exhibitionist currents in aesthetic traditions, yet his world-making reclaims the emancipatory values of creative expression.
Art
Seeking Histories and Futures in Soil
Today’s artists often refrain from imprinting their vision upon the land, instead bringing the soil into the gallery as an archive of nature-human interactions.
Opinion
The Plant-Human Hybrid Is the Cyborg of Our Moment
Plants are invading the space of humans in art, at a time when human activity is invading every corner of nature.