Posted on 2024-10-14

The work in this show has an overt or discreet but always central relationship with technology. The Surveillance insect series is generated by inserting carefully constructed prompts into a commercially available AI image generator. A small handful out of the hundreds of rejected results is reworked in critical ways and printed on silver gelatin paper, a physically rich medium with strong associations of documentary veracity and cultural value. The subject matter gives a metaphorical body to the secretive data collection that underlies most public-facing image generators, which depend on images collated without the permission of their makers, and on users of the tools who are surveilled in their turn.

Opposite – Projection for damaged children, 2024

Exhibition runs through to November 16th, 2024

greengrassi
1a Kempsford Road
SE11 4NU
London

www.greengrassi.com

  

ABEL TOURNISSOUX – NI FEU NI LIEU

Posted on 2024-10-07

Brand new show!

Opposite – Fil flou, 2024

Exhibition runs through to November 9th, 2024

Au Cube
124 rue Jean Jaurès
01750 Saint Laurent sur Saône
Mâcon
France

www.aucube.fr

  

GERMAINE KRUIP – TWO CIRCLES, MIRRORED

Posted on 2024-10-07

In contemplating this presentation for the Annexe, Kruip imagined a reversed version of the artwork titled Untitled Circle Stainless Steel, Phantom, 2024. Both works are made from the same stainless steel plate polished to a mirror finish.
Although both circles are static, one evokes the presence of a spotlight while the other signifies its absence.
In her work, Kruip often employs pulsating light movements and optical illusions that seamlessly transition between light and shadow, evoking traditions from theatre and cinema. Here, facing each other, both artworks enter a dialogue and embody the artist’s deep fascination with time, light, and geometry, offering viewers a moment of reflection, a resting point.

Opposite – Untitled Circle Stainless Steel, phantom, 2024

Exhibition runs through to November 9th, 2024

The Approach
1st Floor, 47 Approach Road
Bethnal Green
E2 9LY London

www.theapproach.co.uk

  

TIGER ROCHA – BODYFOUNTAIN

Posted on 2024-10-07

Steve Turner is pleased to present bodyfountain, a solo exhibition by New York-based Tiger Rocha, featuring four large-scale abstract paintings that are emotional explorations of the artist’s desires. They are composed of layers of thinned and sculptural oil paint that Rocha slashed and dripped across the canvas over a period of several months. He describes the paintings as expansive erotic environments, landscapes strewn with the energy and traces of his body, desires, and emotions. The paint, like blood or other bodily fluid, fountains in all directions conveying Rocha’s sense of ecstasy.

Opposite – energyplummet, 2024

Exhibition runs through to November 16th, 2024

Steve Turner
6830 Santa Monica Blvd.
CA 90038
Los Angeles

wsteveturner.la

  

SAMUEL HINDOLO – EUROSTAR

Posted on 2024-09-30

One painting is based on Saïda A Enlevé Manneken-Pis, a seven minute 1913 silent comedy about a leopard that escapes a fairgrounds in Brussels. She soon upends city order. In the titular scene, she knocks down the city’s infamous pissing statue before city officials chase her.

The painting readapts the chase. In one corner is a uniformed figure straddling a flashy yellow-pinkish car while being trailed by Saïda. The scene of the vehicle with its contorted flattened figure is a stark contrast to that of the leopard who shimmers mid gallop at the other end of the image. She is faint and incomplete; her spotty rosettes fading into the body, front legs losing definition. What seems like a vanishing act is not so much a disappearance as
it is her melding with the ground.

Like a moving image, the two scenes form a predicament. The characters are traveling quickly, both towards and
away from each other on a velodrome course brushed in pearly streaks; ostensibly a loop continuing somewhere
outside the frame.
– S.H.

Opposite – Saïda (Two Scenes, One Predicament), 2024

Exhibition runs through to November 9th, 2024

Galerie Buchholz
17 East 82nd Street
NY 10028
New York

www.galeriebuchholz.de

  

SHIRAZEH HOUSHIARY – THE SOUND OF ONE HAND

Posted on 2024-09-30

For her first solo show in Los Angeles for over a decade, the British artist Shirazeh Houshiary presents new and recent works, exploring the origins of life and the mysteries of the cosmos, from a microscopic cellular level, to the stratospheric phenomenon of the aurora borealis. The show’s title relates to a Zen Buddhist teaching that instructs the student to listen to the sound of one hand clapping, in order to open their mind to such a possibility and transcend the constraints of the physical body. Despite not being a Zen practitioner, Houshiary realised that her work revolves around the insistent sound made by one of her hands, making tiny, looping, scratched marks in pencil onto large aluminum surfaces, building up worlds through the silence of her inscribed words.

Opposite – Aurora, 2023

Exhibition runs through to November 2nd, 2024

Lisson Gallery
1037 N. Sycamore Avenue
90038
Los Angeles

www.lissongallery.com