The capsule sees Nagaba tap into a handful of hip-hop classics to inform his drawings, with the offering’s standout piece – a nylon black work jacket – etched with “Check Your Head” on the backside, a reference to the Beastie Boys’ studio album. A sketch of the album cover is imprinted underneath.
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The suggestion of total access and control found in drone footage is unnervingly irresistible as long as the implications back here on the ground are kept at bay. Before I can name and identify what I am looking at, and while the view is still a sandbox inviting hands-on meddling at no risk, I have one second before realizing that agendas other than mine have chosen the view. This is a short and blissful beat. As someone who often prefers their human closeness from afar, the moment is familiar.
In Formation looks at stills of contested geographies as source material, and the paintings start on the ground as drop cloths. Walking the landscape in bird’s eye perspective and transcribing features and landmarks in watery shorthand, I leave behind stains, dog hairs and other inadvertent DNA on the absorbent grounds, bits of non-diagrammatic evidence of my uneven focus and bodily limitations. In encounters with terrains that have seen several iterations of a conflict, I sometimes double the cloth and start the second painting from the stains of the first.
I trust speakers who for specificity’s sake choose made-up words and clunky syntax over eloquence.
Relatedly, I know the registers in my painting will feel dulled and inadequate over time and need continuity breaks and composite solutions to avoid it. Should my eyes get cocky about their judgment, then my nose, though less fluent, might make a sharper distinction, and later on my fingers, ear, tongue or foot keep me on my toes. As senses scan and thicken the source material into something embodied, I know my limits, and for a beat I am undefended. The moment is brief, and therefore tolerable.
Hanneline Røgeberg, July 2024
Opposite – Fingerspitzengefühl, 2023
Exhibition runs through to September 14th, 2024
Galleri Riis
Arbins gate 7
NO-0253 Oslo
Norway
Beetlejuice is back! After an unexpected family tragedy, three generations of the Deetz family return home to Winter River. Still haunted by Beetlejuice, Lydia’s life is turned upside down when her rebellious teenage daughter, Astrid, discovers the mysterious model of the town in the attic and the portal to the Afterlife is accidentally opened. With trouble brewing in both realms, it’s only a matter of time until someone says Beetlejuice’s name three times and the mischievous demon returns to unleash his very own brand of mayhem.
In theatres September 6th, 2024
TweetThis exhibition is a dynamic retrospective of Frank Stewart’s photography that centers on his sensitive and spontaneous approach to portraying world cultures and Black life in many forms—including music, art, travel, food, and dance. His work over the years captured intimate and empathetic images of lives experienced and observed across subjects, cities, and countries.
Exhibition runs through to September 22nd, 2024
Brandywine Museum of Art
1 Hoffman’s Mill Road P.O. Box 141
Chadds Ford
PA 19137
New single “Slow Down” by London-based singer, producer, and rapper, Miso Extra.
TweetThroughout POPS, Matty pulls on the strings of heartache complexities and life-affirming love in a stripped back nature. Relinquishing his low key and understated style for something larger than life, Matty’s sound fuses his nostalgia for the golden era of blogs with the diversification of the late 2000s and an isolated suburban upbringing.
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