CHRISTINA KIMEZE – LONG LOOPS

Posted on 2025-05-07

The exhibition title is taken from the Thom Gunn poem, ‘The Life of the Otter, Tucson Desert Museum’ (1992), in which the late poet imagines the swift, circular movement of an otter underwater and likens the creature’s ‘Long loops’ and ‘figures of eight’ to those made by a ‘lithe skater.’ Gunn alternated figures and settings to illustrate a f luid symmetry between species, gestures and identities. Kimeze echoes this shapeshifting and circularity through representations of water and roller skating, which evoke themes of freedom, movement and flight. Kimeze also draws inspiration from the recent resurgence of roller skating in Black communities throughout the UK, including her own neighborhood in East London. The circular rink and spinning wheels suggest continuous motion set in deliberate contrast to the grounding presence of the rink’s traditional wooden flooring.

Opposite – Carnival, 2025

Exhibition runs through to October 4th, 2025

Hauser & Wirth
8980 Santa Monica Boulevard
CA 90069 West Hollywood

www.hauserwirth.com

  

NATHALIE KHAYAT – UNFOLDED PROXIMITIES

Posted on 2025-04-28

Khayat harnesses the material properties of clay to examine the poetic tensions between structure and fluidity, containment and release, and fragility and endurance in objects infused with reminders of human ritual. Through an intuitive dialogue with clay, Khayat constructs sculptural forms that oscillate between architectural precision and organic vulnerability. With Unfolded Proximities, Khayat unleashes the sculptural potential of her material, marking a significant shift in her practice. While the artist’s work has long occupied a liminal space between function and form, Khayat’s newest body of work embraces—and prioritizes—clay’s capacity for emotional resonance over use.

Opposite – WE BECOME A THIRD THING, 2025

Exhibition runs through to August 1st, 2025

Marianne Boesky Gallery
507 West 24th Street
NY 10011
New York

marianneboeskygallery.com

  

LI RAN – THE SIGNS ARE PRESENT

Posted on 2025-04-21

This body of work is also marked by a cohesive and contemplative painterly language—non-polemical, free of antagonism, and unburdened by historical hierarchies of authority or precedence. Li offers viewers a personal and introspective point of entry: his daily studio ritual of opening the Bible and engaging with spiritual reflection. However, he asserts that this practice is not intended to invoke mysticism. Instead, it underscores an enduring capacity to engage with personal experience, manipulates visual and rhetorical motifs, and draws upon cultural references, without being constrained by dominant historical interpretations.

Opposite – They Swear, Dance, Alongside Miracle, 2024

Exhibition runs through to August 23rd, 2025

Lisson Gallery
1037 N. Sycamore Avenue
90038
Los Angeles

www.lissongallery.com

  

LIZ MAGOR – PERSONALIZE

Posted on 2025-04-14

Two fists extend from the gallery walls, each grasping a turning mass that extends to the floor below. As gyres stopped in motion, their coils are stacked in knots and twists, adopting a nearly bodily dimension. Equipped with two small eyes, it’s difficult to avoid personifying these strange creatures as they direct a shocked stare towards the viewer, wordless, or out of breath. The interjection of the uncanny pervades Magor’s work, as seen in Episode, 2024 a continuation of an ongoing series in which Magor meticulously replicates packing materials. Here, cardboard cast in gypsum is bent and folded, forming a compressed chamber that cradles a gleaming object inside. Supported by two bowed legs, the sculpture enacts a tenuous balance. This tension becomes a site of exploration for Magor, as each work represents a form of collision, whether it be between hard and soft, the fleeting and permanent, the anonymous and the personal, or even what is made and what is found. Throughout her work, Magor, with her own degree of humour, tests the limits of our ability to assign narrative and empathy to inanimate objects.

Opposite – Fist (yellow), 2025

Exhibition runs through to August 9th, 2025

Andrew Kreps Gallery
394 Broadway
10013
New York

www.andrewkreps.com

  

WALTER PICHLER – SCULPTURES, DRAWINGS, MODELS

Posted on 2025-04-07

Comprising fourteen works from across Pichler’s rich career, the show highlights the wide range of mediums in which he practiced, including photography, sculpture, and drawing, as well as his exploration of architecture, history, and the relationship between the human body and technology. This exhibition marks a special tribute to late gallery founder Barbara Gladstone, as it was the last presentation she actively oversaw, in close dialogue with Shao and the Walter Pichler Estate. Walter Pichler shunned the limelight of the artworld and the art market, adopting, instead, the quiet surroundings of his home in Saint Martin, a small village in southeastern Austria, where he lived from 1973 until his death. It was there that he built a series of buildings to house his sculptures.
In all his work lies a profound synergy between space and form. This fluid exchange between the built environment and sculpture has at its source a small figurine, perhaps a Christ figure, that he found in a barn on his land when he first arrived. He was inspired to build an altar for it and converted the building into a specially- designed receptacle to house this enigmatic item.

Opposite – Ohne Titel (Untitled), 1985

Exhibition runs through to August 1st, 2025

Gladstone Gallery
Gladstone 64
130 East 64th Street
NY 10065 New York

www.gladstone64.com

  

BENJAMIN SABATIER – CONCRETE & COLORS

Posted on 2025-03-31

As a sculptor, Benjamin Sabatier does not deny the performative dimension of his practice. Exploring the relationship between art and labor, between action and object, through the use of raw or fragile materials (concrete, cardboard or brick) and an abstract vocabulary which references Modernity, the artist critiques the productionist logic of our capital-centric world by making the transformative process of matter visible.

Opposite – HW (Bright Aqua Green / Medium Magenta), 2024

Exhibition runs through to July 26th, 2025

Xippas
108 rue Vieille-du-Temple
75003 Paris
France

www.xippas.com