Ocula Report Sharjah Biennial 14: Leaving the Echo Chamber 15 Mar 2019 : Stephanie Bailey for Ocula In Meiro Koizumi's three-channel video installation, The Angels of Testimony (2019), the central frame features an interview with Hajime Kondo about his time as a solider of the Imperial Japanese Army during the Second Sino-Japanese War. The conversation centres on war crimes perpetrated in China, including the beheading of Chinese prisoners for...
Ocula Conversation Diana Campbell Betancourt Diana Campbell Betancourt is a curator working predominantly across South and Southeast Asia. Since 2013 she has been the founding artistic director of the Samdani Art Foundation and chief curator of the Dhaka Art Summit in Dhaka, Bangladesh, a transnational art event that has grown in size and scale ever since its first edition in 2012. Backed by...
Ocula Report Chinternet Ugly at Manchester’s Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art 7 Mar 2019 : Mike Pinnington for Ocula China, home to 802 million internet users, is subject to sophisticated online censorship. This shrouded state of affairs, unsurprisingly perhaps, serves to reinforce stereotypes around conformity elsewhere. Any realm, digital or otherwise, subject to such strict scrutiny must necessarily be bland and uncritical, right? I was mulling over such...
Diana Campbell Betancourt, artistic director of the Samdani Foundation and chief curator of the Dhaka Art Summit, discusses her curatorial practice, including her curated group show Fabric(ated) Fractures, currently on view at Alserkal Avenue in Dubai.
Read More By MIRELA BACIAKDiana Campbell Betancourt. Photo: © Pablo Bartholemew.
Sharjah Biennial 14: Leaving the Echo Chamber (7 March–10 June 2019) features over 80 artists and more than 60 new commissions in three exhibitions, each organised by a different curator: Zoe Butt, Omar Kholeif, and Claire Tancons.
Read MoreMeiro Koizumi, The Angels of Testimony (2019). Three-channel video installation, colour, sound, archival material. Duration and dimensions variable. Courtesy Sharjah Art Foundation.
Ocula Report Sharjah Biennial 14: Leaving the Echo Chamber 15 Mar 2019 : Stephanie Bailey for Ocula In Meiro Koizumi's three-channel video installation, The Angels of Testimony (2019), the central frame features an interview with Hajime Kondo about his time as a solider of the Imperial Japanese Army during the Second Sino-Japanese War. The conversation centres on war crimes perpetrated in China, including the beheading of Chinese prisoners for...
Ocula Photolog The Armory Show 2019 11 March 2019 'The Armory Show features presentations by leading international galleries, innovative artist commissions and dynamic public programs. Since its founding in 1994, The Armory Show has served as a nexus for the art world, inspiring dialogue, discovery and patronage in the visual arts.' –The Armory Show Press Release (March 2019).
Ocula Photolog Independent New York 2019 11 March 2019 'Independent New York's selected participants represent the art world's most creative and inspired curatorial visions from a cross-section of emerging, mid-career and established programs from around the world. Independent is curating a forum that is an authentic reflection of the gallery landscape and encourages innovative approaches to fair...
Ocula Conversation Matthew Day Jackson A charred and reflective post-apocalyptic scene looms large in the entrance to Qiao Space in Shanghai. On a sheet of mirror, a cone-shaped architectural structure is etched on the surface, referencing Pieter Bruegel the Elder's The Tower of Babel (1563), rising like a utopian Brigadoon out of the ashes of a scorched recomposed landscape. Pieced...
Hassan SharifVenus and Fish No. 3, 2009 Acrylic on paper
Jason MiddlebrookSomething Left, 2018 Acrylic and spray paint on curly maple
Günther UeckerStrömung, 1972 Nails on canvas on wood
Brian CalvinUntitled, 2018 Ink and colour pencil on paper
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