Articles

Sumitomo Fumihiko writes about the video works of Okinawan artist Chikako Yamashiro. Sumitomo writes that the artist deals with local political issues and a history of sexual violence by enveloping them into poetic meditations on nature and the instability of human desire.

Paul Celan is often called the greatest of postwar European poets. Barry Schwabsky looks back on Celan's life and work following the 100th anniversary of the poet's birth, and the 50th of his death.

The Brazil-based artist duo Bárbara Wagner and Benjamin de Burca produce films blurring the lines between fiction and documentary. Collaborating with their performers—often figures on the margins—the duo creates works that raise notions of visibility, self-representation, and the subversion of dominant cultural forms. Marcella Faustini spoke to the artists and wrote about their work.

Roger Boyce interviews Pavel Pepperstein for White Fungus. The enigmatic Russian painter of hallucinatory landscapes is also known as a writer, critic, art theorist, fashion designer, and rapper.

Henri Cartier-Bresson famously photographed the final days of the Chinese Civil War. Remarkably, an exhibition of these historic images was slated for both Taipei and Beijing—two capitals with diametrically opposed views of that history. The Beijing showing was cancelled due to COVID-19, but the exhibition opened at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum in late 2020. David Frazier examines its reception in Taiwan, considers how it might have been received in Beijing, and explores the thorny historical and political context.

Joseph del Pesco presents photographer Curran Hatleberg with a series of questions to which the artist responds with images.