My interest in art spans performance, video, painting, sculpture, sound to the undefinable. Issues of sex, gender, race, the colonial legacy and the climate emergency are a particular focus. I write across a wide range of topics for a variety of publications including The Guardian, The New York Times, Art Monthly, ARTnews and many more. Below is a selected archive of my articles with links to the full texts.
Tallinn is a beautiful city whose architectural mishmash of gothic, baroque, art nouveau and Soviet modernist styles testifies to upheaval, displacement and occupation over many years. Such events leave a residue of trauma that is passed down through generations, finding expression in different forms, whether through humour or sensory and somatic languages.
Read MoreSammy Baloji finds that the violent legacies of Belgian colonialism in the past continue to haunt the presenting the form of multinational corporate extractivism and exploitation.
Read More‘Wakchakuna’ can be seen as Martínez Garay’s own symbolic gesture of restitution.
Read MoreThis exhibition might be described as a collective haunting. The ghosts of dead and living women populate the show, their fates entwined by three films that touch on themes of memory, erasure, war and borders.
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