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Pleasure and BioTech: An Interview about the Sentient Clit

Alison Hugill — Fri, 30 Aug 2024 10:24:00 +0000

This article is part of our feature topic Desire. ‘Sentient Clit: the Pussification of BioTech’ is a collaborative project rooted in scientific research and creative dialogue between artists Jiabao Li and Dr. WhiteFeather Hunter. Hunter, a Canadian artist and researcher, merges the realms of “witchcraft” and science in her practice, particularly focusing on the potential of female body fluids in…

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Monica Bonvicini

Alison Hugill — Fri, 23 Aug 2024 09:11:44 +0000

This article is part of our feature topic Desire. About six months ago, Monica Bonvicini had to leave her place at the Uferhallen complex in Wedding and relocate to a new studio. For the first time in 15 years, she had to reimagine how to feel in a new space, figure out where and how she could work all over again. The new studio, which sits on the fourth floor of a courtyard building in…

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Manufacturing Desire: An Interview with Antonia Breme

Alison Hugill — Tue, 20 Aug 2024 10:13:09 +0000

This article is part of our feature topic Desire. Antonia Breme is an artist born and based in Berlin, whose practice re-thinks the aesthetics of displays in window design, abstracting them through new sculptural forms. In this way, consumerist and capitalist desire gets subdued, expanding the viewer’s senses and activating our imagination beyond the object itself. Through her refined sculptural…

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Emotional Entanglements: An Interview with Miranda Holmes

Alison Hugill — Wed, 24 Jul 2024 16:12:18 +0000

This article is part of our feature topic Desire. One visual effect dominates the superb caché of paintings by the American artist Miranda Holmes, which deal with the entanglement of self and other, subject and object. Her transparent films of paint, layered on top of one another, give you the sense of a porous spillage from one body to the next, as the scales of a human encounter tip from…

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Everyday Desires: ‘Digital Diaries’ at JSF Düsseldorf

Alison Hugill — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 09:21:25 +0000

This article is part of our feature topic Desire. In Virginia Woolf’s essay ‘Rambling Round Evelyn’ (1920), she explains that a “good diarist writes either for himself alone or for a posterity so distant that it can safely hear every secret and justly weigh every motive.” As their formats have evolved with the advancement of technology, from the locked notebook to online blogs and videos…

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The Absence of Touch: An Interview with Sofía Salazar Rosales

Alison Hugill — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 11:12:59 +0000

This article is part of our feature topic Desire. Sofía Salazar Rosales’ recent exhibition at ChertLüdde, ‘The desire to dance with someone who is not there,’ explored the ways in which presence and absence fuel desire. Accompanying the exhibition was a text written by Dayneris Brito, in which the writer says the following of Rosales’ work: “sculptures are her dancing bodies, liquid bodies…

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Letter from the Editor: Desire

Alison Hugill — Tue, 02 Jul 2024 10:25:37 +0000

This article is part of our feature topic Desire. Followers of French psychoanalytic theorist Jacques Lacan insist that desire cannot be satisfied, as its object is always beyond reach; desire is a means without end, spurred on by its very unattainable nature. If we come too close to the object of our desire, it will only reveal a lack. Many contemporary artists deal directly or indirectly with…

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