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Mika Rottenberg’s Critique of Contemporary Object Culture
All the little things we buy that look simple come from somewhere thanks to a series of interlocking, complex chains and sequences.
Mika Rottenberg
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Mika Rottenberg Mines the Banality and Allure of Spectacle
Despite themes of alienation, fragmentation, and “global domination,” there are indeed elements of lightness, wonder, and curiosity in Rottenberg’s work.
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At the Istanbul Biennial, Pondering Just How Scared We All Are — or Should Be
In The Seventh Continent, installations don’t so much play off one another as lead to a feeling of fatigue, as one ponders a stream of disparate weighty topics in rapid succession.
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Surreal Glimpses of the Absurd Labor of Global Capitalism
Mika Rottenberg explores capitalist banality through video and installations centering international labor's "invisible people," using grotesque renderings of dystopian kitsch.
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Videos that Question the Politics of Different Bodies
At the Met Breuer, four works by David Hammons, Arthur Jafa, Steve McQueen, and Mika Rottenberg overlap with and inform one another.
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Personal but Highly Political Highlights from the 2015 Venice Biennale
VENICE — As I feel my way through a curtain and into a pitch-black, cavernous space, a white square shimmers in the distance.