Category: Review
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Goldmiths CCA pieces together a the radical history of Paper Tiger Television in a recent retrospective on the collective. I am someone who enjoys nothing more than returning home after a long day at work, sinking into my sofa, and letting the soft, hazy glow of whatever trash TV show I’m currently consumed by occupy…
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For his 15th show at the historic venue, Lisson Gallery exhibit a selection of arborous works by the late Canadian artist Rodney Graham. From camera-obscura works, to painting, conceptual sculpture and video, the multi-media exhibition captures a groundbreaking artist’s time in history as well as nature. The main gallery of Lisson’s Bell Street location, which…
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If you have ever felt like the rear end of a car is frowning at you, or if you have a special item of clothing that you wear for good luck, it is likely that you have experienced apophenia. This is the human tendency to perceive patterns and form conclusions based around unrelated sets of…
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As the door of Victoria Miro opens to reveal the bright lights of the expansive gallery, the viewer is immediately drawn in, like a moth to a flame. The fluorescent glow beckons, and it may take a moment to notice the dimly lit stairs tucked to the left. With no prescribed order to follow, one…
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Multimedia artist Joe Moss turns Matt’s Gallery into a playroom for surveillance technology in his latest intertextual, multi-verse installation. Moss’ oeuvre often deals in sculptures, particularly smaller models that evoke themes of cuteness and vulnerability. In Automated Fantasy Procedure, two small drones take their place, flying overhead, recording a path shown on the two screens,…
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Umi Ishihara’s solo exhibition Nocturnal Melody, her first in Europe, follows with a curious ambivalence the lives and ambitions of two dancers in a Shibuya gentleman’s club, inviting viewers into Tokyo’s seedy alternative nightlife scene. Across two galleries, Ishihara builds a colourful, kaleidoscopic account of this nocturnal world. She intersperses documentary footage with direct camera addresses by…
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United at NıCOLETTı last autumn, Valentin Noujaïm brings his urban enigmas Pacific Club (2022) and To Exist Under Permanent Suspicion (2024), where they were joined by Demons to Diamonds, fresh off its gallery tour in 2025, to complete the artist’s La Défense Trilogy. While the films attempt to mystify a topic widely written about, the…
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Returning for this year’s London Palestine Film Festival, Yasmin Fedda’s 2020 documentary about two men forcibly ‘disappeared’ by the Syrian Government, led by the now-ousted Bashar al-Assad. Five years after its release, the hope and perseverance of their loved ones to find answers burns as bright as ever. The film jumps between the lives of…
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Roland Nurier’s minor-release documentary The Tank and the Olive Tree about the history of Palestine passed cinemagoers in 2019. Revived for a screening in Sands Films Studios for the London Palestine Film Festival 2025 last month, the film acts as a catalyst for conversation, with the bittersweetness of renewing its appeal, yet through the vein…
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On its fleeting visit to the UK after winning the Award for Outstanding Artistic Contribution at IDFA last year, Omar Mismar’s meditative documentary A Frown Gone Mad brings Beirut’s industrial complex of beautification to London’s ICA. From a single room in a Bouba’s popular salon, Mismar explores the production of war, beauty, and cinema, with…
