On Ana Mendieta at Tate Modern
"In one group, the titular silhouette is grafted into the earth. In others, it is filled with red pigment that spreads into wind or water. Sometimes it is set aflame. Throughout, you observe the body, or an impression of the body, from outside.."
"custard tarts for nipples"
Patricia Piccinini at Ames Yavuz
"the work brushes up against anxieties as old as storytelling itself: miscegenation, bestiality, contamination, the threat posed by the outsider"
Hurvin Anderson at Tate Britain
"Hurvin Anderson gets cast inadvertently as a painter of hot, atmospheric landscapes. But he is so often interfering with places: erecting fences, peering through grilles, jostling with boundaries. He paints the terms in which a place can be seen at all."
On Love by Maren Hassinger at Raven Row
"Maren Hassinger’s installation Love anchors Raven Row’s new exhibition Nomenclature for the Time Being. The intervention takes place in the seldom-used top floor flat – a space that, much to my surprise, resembles an eclectic time capsule of the 1970s."
On A Second Life at Tate Modern
'In A Second Life Tracey Emin seems the same through and through. But the world has caught up.'
