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16 Featured Exhibitions
This season's exhibitions celebrate emerging and established talent, whose works are pushing the boundaries of film, installation and photography.
30 Creative Partnership
Refik Anadol crafts mesmerising installations with AI and data-driven algorithms, leading to speculations on the future of human-made art.
36 Devoted to the Screen
Summer Wagner's "visual poems" depict figures fixed to the light of their phones. Fantasy and reality combine to hold a mirror up to life online.
| 48 A Sense of Wonder | Gareth Iwan Jones' fascination with woodland ecocystems inspired enchanting scenes that document the beauty and mystery of forests. | 58 Narrative Experiment | Vibrant landscapes, mysterious, lively figures and pulsing colour palettes collide in Sanja Marušić's | portraits, debating the body and female identity. | 64 Glitched Landscapes | Vertical stripes transform serene coastlines into two-dimensional kaleidoscopes in Niall Staines' natural seascapes, creating new order from chaos. | ||||
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| 76 Natural Reflections | Federica Belli's minimalist portraits become an | effective visual language to communicate and | understand questions about humanity's future. | 82 Systems of Value | Reflection is a metaphor for cultural and financial | value to conceptual artist Sarah Meyohas. Light bounces between mirrors in bright, endless loops. | 92 Bold New Mythologies | Yannis Davy Guibinga evokes Gabonese folklore, | science fiction and cultural astronomy in portraits | rich with narrative and expansive bold backdrops. |
| 102 Intimacy and Curiosity | Amy Harrity distils subjects' personal experiences into compositions that evoke honesty and clarity, capturing the diverse breadth of human emotion. | 112 Memory Investigated | Thomas Demand highlights the fiction beneath | attempts to document the truth, questioning the power and responsibility behind art and its maker. | 116 Aesthetica Art Prize 2023 | The 21 finalists utilise creativity as expression, with works surveying the ethics of representation, mass digitisation and the fragility of planet Earth. |
126 Exhibitions
We survey Mike Nelson at the Hayward Gallery, alongside Photo Elysée's group exhibition and David van Dartel at Elliott Gallery, Amsterdam.
131 Film
Paul Mescal's bruising sensitivity shines through in drama God's Creatures. Tarik Saleh directs a stark meditation on power in religious institutions.
133 Music
Heather Woods Broderick's Labyrinth is a lyrical meander across alternative folk, whilst Westerman echoes the frustration and anxiety of feeling lost.
Books
135 The Latest Publications
Russell Tovey and Robert Diament translate the magic of their podcast into print in Talk Art, with new releases from Adrienne Raquel and Phaidon.
Artists’ Directory
140 Featured Practitioners
This issue highlights artists using innovative ideas, materials and techniques to showcase the world from new and varying perspectives.
Last Words
146 Zanele Muholi
The visual activist documents and celebrates the Black LGBTQIA+ community in their latest exhibition, using the camera to confront injustice.
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