Tag: video art
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With Bardo Loops, Gabriel Abrantes’ signature anthropomorphism is as emotional and ingenious as ever. Throughout his filmic oeuvre, multimedia artist Gabriel Abrantes has consistently returned to and nurtured an approach to exploring human emotions through non-human characters. The most famous example is The Artificial Humors (2016), a tidy answer to the common question “what if…
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In Tate’s recently announced 2027 programme, moving-image art features boldly yet sparsely. Announced last month, the exhibition programme presents retrospectives from many time periods, as well as new commissions, bringing international art to its over 7.5 million yearly visitors. From early 2027 to early 2028, Tate Modern will see shows centred around ink painting, a…
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The group show that transports viewers back to the months before the 2008 crash hesitates to leave the political and economic decline of the present behind—making it an art show for our times. Like a modern One Direction for the art world, ICA bring together recent works and new commissions from Jenna Bliss, Buck Ellison…
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With ‘Narrative Warfare’, Jordan Lord reclaims the ‘tell, don’t show’ rhetorical approach as a tool for resistance against fair-right domination of the image economy. In the tradition of documentary, we cannot categorise Jordan Lord’s latest film, Concealed and Denied. This isn’t only because it deals with the rapidly evolving culture of social media politics, or…
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With this crazed symphony, James Richards brings together four years of works to create a hallucinatory experience for the hysteria of our times. The umbrella name given to the three distinct chapters of James Richards’ latest work at Sylvia Kouvali is perhaps the best way to describe the feeling that flows between the varying images.…
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By breaking down and re-constituting spectators’ movement through her moving-image works, Melanie Manchot re-defines the social spaces that have historically excluded women. Off the back of her first feature film, STEPHEN, premiering at Liverpool Biennal 2023, In Darkness and Light contextualises Manchot’s video practice with contemporaneous works that chart the German photographer’s skills in moving…
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Rivers’ filmic trialogue presents a dystopia of language and representation, flickering ceaselessly between reverent and polemical. The pre-fab screening room that takes up the majority of Kate McGarry limits light ascetically. The black-and-white film doesn’t offer a lot of light to reflect off the mostly black interior. The only source of light, fitted in a…
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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…
