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CONVERSATIONS
“They Died Laughing”: Bani Abidi at Gropius Bau, Berlin
In thinking about my video installations, the possibilities of specific material and spatial relationships are quite important, along with the projections themselves. I guess it has to do with the fact that I was educated in an art school and not a film academy.
CONVERSATIONS
Strange and Seductive Objects: Gabriel Kuri
While the objects we have been living with for decades come back to haunt us, filling the oceans and the earth, Gabriel Kuri is well aware of their power. The artist is fascinated by the logic with which everyday objects speak to us and, ultimately, seduce us.
ESSAYS
Gates to the City: Cui Jie
Cui has treated the building at the center of the image with the sort of bright, slightly abstracted perspective used by the Russian Constructivists, and as with so many architectural renderings, has left the landscape around it deliberately sketchy.
REVIEWS
The Postnational Artistic Imaginaries at Work in Yto Barrada’s Double Skin at Casa Estudio Luis Barragán, Mexico City
No. 12 Gral. Francisco Ramírez is a pine door set in a ruthlessly plain cement wall on a pinched cul-de-sac in Mexico City, teetering on the edge of a freeway. The dark, narrow hallway leads visitors to a set of volcanic stone steps atop which another door, kept fastidiously shut, opens to a high-ceilinged entry flooded with soaring natural light. This commanding effect caused by the blink-inducing forced contrast of light and space is a signature flourish of the home’s visionary and former occupant, Pritzker prize–winning Mexican architect Luis Barragán.
