An exhibition at MAST, Bologna, brings together two decades of work by Mohamed Bourouissa, known for granting visibility to lives historically erased from mainstream representation. From Philadelphia’s Black cowboys to staged moments with friends and acquaintances from the French banlieues, Bourouissa explores the codes, postures and poetics of everyday existence. Rica Cerbarano reflects on the […] The post In the web of others: Mohamed Bourouissa appeared first on 1000 Words.| 1000 Words
On the uninhabited island of Illa del Rei, where a former British naval hospital now houses Hauser & Wirth Menorca, Cindy Sherman’s latest exhibition and her first solo show in Spain in over two decades is on view. Spanning eight series from across her near 50-year career, The Women stages a carnival of ageing flappers, social climbers and fashion phantoms; with deadpan wit and grotesque precision, Sherman’s portraits expose the desperate contortions of femininity and the moment the mask ...| 1000 Words
Ying Ang’s Fruiting Bodies, the artist’s third major book and first with Perimeter Editions, emerges from walks through inner-city parks near her Melbourne home. Thinking through the fetishisation of fertility and its impact on cultural views of womanhood, Jane Simon writes that the work offers a meditative exploration of bodies beyond reproduction, using tactile, intimate images of mushrooms to speculate on nature, personal history and ways of knowing.| 1000 Words
Is the art world willing to take real political risks, or does it perform radicality within safe limits? What to make of aesthetic gestures of dissent without institutional accountability and without any attempts at broader movement building? Peter Watkins probes these questions and more in the context of Les Rencontres d’Arles 2025, arguing that a familiar absence remains despite this year’s theme of ‘disobedient’ images. Elsewhere, festival highlights include Nan Goldin’s recurrin...| 1000 Words
A constellation of images, films, collage, and poetry – over fifteen years in the making – comes to life at New York’s American Academy of Arts and Letters in Elle Pérez’s latest exhibition, The World Is Already Again Beginning, History with the Present. From the raw pulse of punk in Bronx basements to a tender […] The post Speaking to the future: Elle Pérez in New York appeared first on 1000 Words.| 1000 Words