CONSTANTINE SKOURLIS – REALITY CANCELLED
2021-07-26Official video for “Reality Cancelled” — the second track from Constantine Skourlis’ album ETERNAL RECURRENCE, out on Bedouin Records.
TweetYOANN PISTERMAN – WATER GROOVE
2021-07-26Yoann Pisterman is a visual artist and multi-instrumentalist composer from the French Riviera who is now based in Berlin. Water Groove is his debut album (and the tenth album from Bytes), an impressionistic sound journey into waves, frequencies and electronic resonance. Yoann employs loops and repetitive patterns, interwoven between drones and melodic elements, to create magical, transportative music with echoes of the classic Japanese ambient and New Age music of the Eighties and the trippy Kosmische of 1970s Germany.
TweetDANA POWELL – DRINKING DUST
2021-07-26Continuing the portrayal of transitional spaces and moments of suspense, Powell’s newest paintings explore ideas around environmentalism and the place of humans in nature. Change comes fast, now more than ever, on a planet that seems to be heating up and running out – of space, resources, and time. In Drinking Dust, the human is inherently present though never visually portrayed. Intervention comes in the form of graffiti, picked clovers, trails in grass, and a hole in a frozen pond. These paintings are charged with an anxiety felt all over the world, but also include moments of humor and joy, beauty and respite. For Powell, this paradox is the epitome of being human. Wonder is found in simple acts, like looking at the moon, or traveling through a landscape transformed by the sheer force of weather. Despite an ever-present fear of collapse and change, there is some reassurance that to be human is to be a vital part of nature.
Opposite – Night watch, 2021
Exhibition runs through to August 28th, 2021
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery
1010 North Highland Avenue
CA 90038
Los Angeles
DAWOUD BEY – AN AMERICAN PROJECT
2021-07-26Since the mid-1970s, Dawoud Bey (b. 1953) has worked to expand upon what photography can and should be. Insisting that it is an ethical practice requiring collaboration with his subjects, he creates poignant meditations on visibility, power, and race. Bey chronicles communities and histories that have been largely underrepresented or even unseen, and his work lends renewed urgency to an enduring conversation about what it means to represent America with a camera.
Spanning from his earliest street portraits in Harlem to his most recent series imagining an escape from slavery on the Underground Railroad, Dawoud Bey: An American Project attests to the artist’s profound engagement with the Black subject. He is deeply committed to the craft of photography, drawing on the medium’s specific tools, processes, and materials to amplify the formal, aesthetic, and conceptual goals of each body of work. Bey views photography not only as a form of personal expression but as an act of political responsibility, emphasizing the necessary and ongoing work of artists and institutions to break down obstacles to access, convene communities, and open dialogues.
Exhibition runs through to September 30th, 2021
Whitney Museum of American Art
99 Gansevoort Street
New York
NY 10014
EMMA STERN – BOY, IT FEELS GOOD TO BE A COWGIRL
2021-07-19Emma Stern paints virtual women, taking avatars as her muses. Stern plays with sultry, or even pornographic, codes and representations in the virtual world by combining traditional painting methods with 3D modeling methods. In her work, Stern interprets the consequences of the biases and preferences prevalent in the male-dominated arena of software and technology, and magnifies the effects of those same preferences and biases on the female body and its popular representation in cyberspace. Her fantastical, pastel-colored avatars borrow from familiar tropes in gaming, as well as from the visual vocabulary of niche online communities such as furries, fandom, and erotic 3D art message boards.
Opposite – Blossom + Fang (dusk), 2021
Exhibition runs through to August 14th, 2021
Almine Rech
64 rue de Turenne
75003 Paris
APICHATPONG WEERASETHAKUL & LU LEI
2021-07-19ShanghART Beijing is pleased to present the fourth chapter of special project ‘First Spring’. Featured in the final instalment will be two works of art: ‘Fireworks (Fans)’ by Apichatpong Weerasethakul and ‘The Parentheses Corridor and Hand Washing Basins’ by Lu Lei.
Opposite – Installation view
Exhibition runs through to August 29th, 2021
ShanghART
261 Caochangdi, Airport Side Road
Chaoyang District
100015 Beiji
