Xu Zhen’s “Alien”
Addresses the contemporary politics of conflict, protest, migration, and the identification of the
Nargess Hashemi’s “I Will Build a Tall City Interconnected by Cul-de-sacs”
Utopia is a place of interconnection, with the lines between public and private realms blurred and fluid.
Golnaz Fathi “A Long Line Without a Word”
Freedom is attained through discipline. Only rarely does the artist permit a spontaneous line to leap free.
Yeditepe Biennial: Istanbul’s Islamic Arts Festival
Can the traditional arts be re-cast as contemporary art for the public?
Mak Ying Tung 2’s “The Anything Machine”
Mak creates a strange atmosphere, reflecting the feeling of a quasi-hypermodern spirituality when we look around to see what we actually pay dues to.
Jheon Soocheon’s “Space of Contemplation”
Has potential to be compelling but much in
“Dismantling the Scaffold”
“Dismantling the Scaffold” implies an active de-shrouding; a tearing away at structures; a shedding of the temporary to reveal the concrete.
“Patani Semasa”
What is it like to make art in a place identified with conflict, in a Muslim community within a Buddhist nation?
Zheng Zhou’s “2014”
Paying tribute to a special creative period, Edouard Malingue Gallery presents 12 of Zheng
