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28 November 2025 ❖ Art Critique ❖ 10 minutes
Peter Hujar: Honesty as an Art of Seeing
Peter Hujar captures the radical humanity of New York's underground in the 1970s and 1980s. His black and white photographs, of stunning formal beauty, reveal writers, dancers, drag queens, and animals with democratic attention. Each portrait constitutes a silent pact between the photographer and his subject, where seeing becomes an act of mutual recognition.
27 November 2025 ❖ Art Critique ❖ 8 minutes
Sharon Lockhart: Filming Invisible Lives
Sharon Lockhart is an American artist who films and photographs communities over years to create works where time expands. She captures Polish teenage girls, construction workers, and Japanese basketball teams with a fixed camera that imposes a contemplative and persistent duration.
26 November 2025 ❖ Art Critique ❖ 10 minutes
Gilbert & George: Chroniclers of the East End
Gilbert & George form a British artist duo who have elevated their daily existence into a total work of art. Residing in Spitalfields since 1968, they create monumental photomontages exploring sexuality, religion, and social tensions of the London East End, a territory they tirelessly walk to document contemporary urban life.
25 November 2025 ❖ Art Critique ❖ 11 minutes
Howard Hodgkin: The Painter of the Almost-Said
Howard Hodgkin creates a paradoxical body of work where color explodes and memory slips away. Painting "emotional situations” on wood, he captures not events but their affective echo. His paintings overflow their frames just as emotion overflows limits, creating precious objects that celebrate the elusive.
24 November 2025 ❖ Art Critique ❖ 11 minutes
Sammy Baloji: Unearthing Colonial Violence
Sammy Baloji unearths Belgian colonial archives to confront them with the Congolese present. Photographer, videographer, and sculptor based between Lubumbashi and Brussels, he works on the memory of Katanga, the legacy of mining extraction, and the structures of domination inscribed in the architecture. His work reveals the continuity between colonial violence and neocolonial exploitation.
23 November 2025 ❖ Art Critique ❖ 11 minutes
Julio César Morales: Neons and passages
Julio César Morales explores the migrant condition through watercolors, sound installations, and videos. Born in Tijuana, he documents clandestine crossings and underground economies with a formal delicacy that contrasts with the violence of reality. His art makes visible those whom contemporary migration policies strive to erase.
22 November 2025 ❖ Art Critique ❖ 10 minutes
Danielle Mckinney: Painting Forbidden Rest
Danielle Mckinney creates pictorial sanctuaries where Black women finally grant themselves the luxury of rest. Her small-format canvases, bathed in thick shadows, capture moments of domestic solitude with a haunting intensity. Between Matisse and Hopper, she invents a visual language that celebrates ordinary existence as a political territory.
21 November 2025 ❖ Art Critique ❖ 10 minutes
The secret chambers of Toshiko Takaezu
Toshiko Takaezu creates monumental ceramics whose uniqueness lies in their airtight sealing. Sculpting the interior space as much as the visible surfaces, she designs portable architectures for darkness. Her gestural glazes compose a poetic language where drips and silences converse with rare intensity.
20 November 2025 ❖ Art Critique ❖ 10 minutes
Bilal Hamdad: Anatomy of Contemporary Paris
Bilal Hamdad captures the contemporary Paris metropolis through large oil paintings constructed from photographs. His canvases reveal the subtle manifestations of urban daily life: subway exits, anonymous passersby, transit spaces. He questions the relationships between visible and invisible, practicing a visual archaeology of the present.
19 November 2025 ❖ Art Critique ❖ 9 minutes
Mira Schor, artist-theorist against dogmas
Mira Schor is an American artist who has been painting and writing for five decades, refusing to separate theory and practice. Her canvases integrate language as pictorial material, while her critical essays defend feminist painting against conceptual dogmas. Co-founder of the journal M/E/A/N/I/N/G, she embodies thinking in action.
18 November 2025 ❖ Art Critique ❖ 8 minutes
Zhang Nan and the Absurdity of the Human Condition
Zhang Nan creates oil paintings in which distorted human figures explore violence and the absurd. Inspired by the classic Chinese novel Au bord de l'eau and the triptychs of Max Beckmann, this Chinese artist recently settled in Berlin builds a visual language that interrogates human interiority without documentary compromise or narrative ease.
17 November 2025 ❖ Art Critique ❖ 13 minutes
Bianca Bondi: When nature reclaims its rights
Bianca Bondi creates immersive installations where organic materials metamorphose before our eyes. Salt basins, endemic plants, charred furniture compose domestic landscapes haunted by human absence. This South African and Italian artist summons ancient history to question our relationship to time and habitation.