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April 6, 2014

South likes: Rokni Haerizadeh, Ramin Haerizadeh and Hesam Rahmanian at Gallery Isabelle van den Eynde, Dubai

The trio of Rokni Haerizadeh, Ramin Haerizadeh and Hesam Rahmanian return to Isabelle van Eynde Gallery for the sequel of the show I Put it There, You Name It, held at the gallery in 2012. With a collaborative approach as well as with an improvisational attitude, the three artists put up a meandering exhibition, wandering between surrealistic inspirations, spontaneous visual puns, and the manifold influences generated by the context of a city—Dubai—filled with shopping malls and consumerist desires. read more.

April 5, 2014

South likes: Harun Farocki at MUAC, Mexico City

With a long career in film, video art and film criticism, Harun Farocki suggests a powerful conjunction between the filmic medium and contemporary art, emphasizing the ideological capacity of images. His work, using a wide range of media, constitutes a critical element through the medium of and about cinema, which addresses political questions and analyses war, economics and politics. read more.

April 4, 2014

South likes: Superstudio at Pinksummer, Genova

"Architecture exists in time as salt exists in water": this was the premise on the construction of a bachelor machine called La moglie di Lot when, in 1978, Superstudio participated to the Venice Biennale. Five salt sculptures placed on a zinc table were slowly melted by a mechanism dripping water on them. Each of these sculptures worked as a token of two antithetical notions, the one of monument and the one of anti-monument.  read more.

April 2, 2014

South likes: Ed Atkins and Slavs and Tatars at Kunsthalle Zürich, Zürich

The current Ed Atkins and Slavs and Tatars shows at Kunsthalle Zürich are a highlight not to be missed. Of course, the artists’ names and CVs leave no room for doubt. But there’s more to it. On the one hand, Ed Atkins’s highly visual work gains its significance mostly from the peculiar relationship between its technical and formal elements and its narrative content. In his video installations, the artist combines fabricated image failures with HD technology as digitalized avatars or corpses dive into futile or failed endeavours. read more.

March 31, 2014

South likes: Runo Lagomarsino at Nils Stærk, Copenhagen

For his second show at Nils Stærk, Runo Lagomarsino inquired into issues related to politics of display, cultural heritage, and colonial appropriation of ancient artifacts. The work titled They watched us for a very long time is composed by a grid of metal plates that used to be part of the illumination system of the Pergamon Museum in Berlin. Another work, Pergamon (A Place in Things) consists of the careful arrangement of more than a hundred light bulbs and neon tubes from the same museum. read more.

March 30, 2014

South likes: Lina Selander at Kunsthall Trondheim, Trondheim

Silphium, the new film presented by Lina Selander at Kunsthall Trondheim, deals with the history of a little-known plant, which is now believed to be extinct and was widely popular in ancient times. In fact it seems that silphium's export sustained the economy of the Greek settlement of Cyrene, in today's Libya, to the point that the image of this plant was imprinted on cyrenian coins.  read more.

March 29, 2014

South likes: Teresa Margolles at CA2M, Madrid

The works by Teresa Margolles exhibited at CA2M result from a research initiated in the city of Ciudad Juárez, located in Northern Mexico on the the border with United States. The show, curated by María Inés Rodríguez, portraits the brutal conditions faced by the population of this city, confronted with dire living perspectives, violence, unemployment and depopulation. read more.

March 28, 2014

South likes: Daniel Gustav Cramer at Vera Cortês, Lisbon

Daniel Gustav Cramer’s ongoing Tales series has this subtle touch of humour and mockery that more or less all of his work possesses. Perhaps, this is also what makes this practice so crucially relevant despite its seemingly “gentle” forms and themes. The artist’s show at Vera Cortês is a selection of Tales. Each Tale is a photograph or group of photographs depicting mostly sceneries and at times, like in Tales 44 (Stresa, Lago Maggiore, Italy, September 2012), some minimal, mundane action. read more.

March 26, 2014

South likes: Camille Henrot at Chisenhale Gallery, London

An ambient soundtrack playing on loop and an intense blue-coloured gallery space create a dense environment accommodating a vast collection of objects. Each wall appears as a segment of our ever-growing understanding of our surroundings: technology and mass media reality meet with memorabilia from a teenager's room and sculptures that remind of primitive civilisations. read more.

March 24, 2014

South likes: Christos Papoulias at Rebecca Camhi Gallery, Athens

Born in 1953 in Metaxourgeio, Athens, Christos Papoulias returns to the area where he grew up, at Rebecca Camhi Gallery, to reinvent a vision of the neighbourhood based on his memories as a child. In this show, curated by Maria Thaleia Karra and Olga Chatzidaki, drawings, plans, collages and sculptures create a surreal view of Metaxourgeio back in the 1960s.  read more.

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