Hilary Irons finds a major theme of empathy and connection in the work of seven graduates from Maine College of Art’s MFA program, highlighting how artists are responding to the precarity and isolation of the world and setting out to change it.
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Cecilia Cornejo Sotelo speaks with Carolina González Valencia about her new publication, How to Clean a House: A Family Album, a 20-page book of postcards that combines instructions on how to clean someone’s house as a domestic worker with milestones from the migration experience of the artist’s family.
Mimicking the collaborative nature of the Biennial’s curation, five cultural producers in Maine gather in conversation to model the critical potential in slow looking, multiple reads, and shared dialogue.
Vivian Ewing reviews Second Sight: The Paradox of Vision in Contemporary Art, an exhibition that addresses what it’s like to possess qualities that so much of the world is not built to serve: blindness and blackness.
Yoshua Okón’s multi-channel video blurs the lines between documentary, reality, and fiction, asking participants and viewers to engage in sociological experiments that reveal discomforting questions.
Before Projection: Video Sculpture 1974–1995 at MIT’s List Center defines video sculpture, asking viewers to grapple with the spatial and social realities of video.
Eden Osucha speaks with filmmaker Natalie Bookchin about the phenomenon of video self-portraiture in the internet age, and what it means for resistance and identity.
The intangibility of memory, the diversity of grief, and the anguish of remembrance are laid bare for the public in “Anguish: The Misgivings of Remembrance” at the ICA at MECA. by Veronica A. Perez
On Our Radar: Aimee Goguen
Aimee Goguen is a video artist and experimental animator working and living in Los Angeles. Meg Hahn asks her five quick questions about her work.
Ann Hirsch will probably defy most expectations of a feminist artist thinking about gender, social media, and the implications of shame and display.
Jessica Hankey’s photographic and video work on non-profits, community centers, clubs, and museums, investigates institutions and the relationships that constitute them. Using documentary and narrative filmmaking strategies, she investigates the unstable relationship between location, image, and perception. by Erin Colleen Johnson