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Mika Rottenberg Mines the Banality and Allure of Spectacle

by Matt Stromberg July 31, 2022August 8, 2022

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

by Mary Pelletier October 29, 2019November 14, 2019

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

by Naomi Polonsky October 17, 2018October 17, 2018

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

by Cynthia Cruz August 25, 2017

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

by Maura Reilly June 22, 2015June 22, 2015

VENICE — As I feel my way through a curtain and into a pitch-black, cavernous space, a white square shimmers in the distance.

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