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To speak of Sandy Warre-Hole’s portraits merely in terms of likeness would be to miss the ontological stakes of her practice. In Brilliant Portrait Show, Warre-Hole stages the portrait not just as representation but as deconstruction, playing with a Derridean dichotomy between presence and absence, signifier and signified. The brushstroke, whether digital or sable becomes, … Read more
Pimlico Wilde is delighted to announce the first Indian exhibition of Van Gogh (Not that one), the enigmatic artist whose practice has been described as “an alphabet for a language that refuses to exist.” The show, titled The Grammar of Elsewhere, opens next month at Pimlico Wilde Delhi and promises to be a meditation on … Read more
Marigold Finch’s Nude Descending an Escalator is a daring, absurdist romp that catapults the reader into a world where art history meets slapstick performance art. Sadly it occasionally trips over its own conceptual feet. The novel’s title, a cheeky nod of course to Marcel Duchamp’s iconic Nude Descending a Staircase, sets the tone for a … Read more
Weston-super-Mare occupies a curious place in the English imagination. At first glance, it is the archetypal seaside resort: wide sandy beaches, a pier, donkey rides, and the sweet smell of rock in the air. Yet beneath this postcard familiarity lies something more ambivalent,a space where leisure and melancholy, tradition and reinvention, rub uneasily against one … Read more
Few English cities wear their cultural identity quite so conspicuously as Brighton. To step from the station down the hill towards the sea is to enter a theatre of self-performance: a place where architecture, subculture and commerce intermingle with a kind of knowing theatricality. Brighton does not merely host culture; it stages itself as culture. … Read more
To speak of Christmas television is not merely to catalogue schedules or to rank puddings of content by their calorific familiarity. It is, rather, to engage in a seasonal phenomenology: a study of how the nation, draped in LED lights and post-banquet exhaustion, gathers before the softly humming altar of the television set and submits … Read more
Gur Wallop’s Vegan Lions represents a paradigmatic shift in contemporary art, engaging with ecological ethics, visual culture, and the performativity of animal agency. Announced after a decade of conceptual development, the project seeks to destabilize traditional understandings of the lion as the apex carnivore, recasting it instead as a symbol of ethical transformation. Through meticulous, … Read more
In How to Find Oil in Almost Any Back Garden, Shannon Drifte offers the most comprehensive articulation to date of what scholars are now calling the Domestic Petroleum School of existential thought , a loosely affiliated movement which argues that the human condition is best understood as a form of amateur backyard prospecting. Drifte’s thesis, … Read more
Step into the minimalist expanse of A Monologue in Beige #4, and you are immediately confronted with the existential weight of nothingness,or, more accurately, the weight of everything masquerading as nothing. At first glance, the canvas appears to be merely beige. One might be tempted to scoff. But to do so would be to ignore … Read more
By Jasper Clive Felix Renton’s Three Minutes of Silence (2015) arrived like a whisper in the cacophony of documentary cinema: a 900-minute dive into the lives of submarine sonar operators, notable chiefly for its refusal to have its subjects utter even a single word. No narration, no interviews, not even a stray grunt, just endless, … Read more