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ANGHARAD WILLIAMS | KUNSTVEREIN FÜR DIE RHEINLANDE UND WESTFALLEN | PASSE-AVANT | REVIEW

ANGHARAD WILLIAMS | KUNSTVEREIN FÜR DIE RHEINLANDE UND WESTFALLEN | PASSE-AVANT | REVIEW

In her 2014 article Sex and Wheels for the Guardian, Zadie Smith revisits at J.G. Ballard’s novel Crash. Following on the writer’s perception of his work as the “first pornographic novel about technology”, Smith reflects on Ludwig Wittgenstein’s statement that language is better understood through its use, and not 

Laura Langer at Kunsthaus Glarus | frieze | review

Laura Langer at Kunsthaus Glarus | frieze | review

The spiral has been used as a symbol since the beginning of recorded culture. In Celtic mythologies, for instance, spirals denote elevation to higher levels of consciousness. Popular iconographies based on Greco-Roman and Judeo-Christian mythology, on the other hand, combine the spiral with a straight 

Camilla Steinum Plays with Chance | frieze | review

Camilla Steinum Plays with Chance | frieze | review

‘Pick a card’ is the initial instruction visitors receive prior to entering Camilla Steinum’s immersive exhibition, ‘Symptom, Sympathy’, at Westfälischer Kunstverein. Further directions and notes are included in a booklet that serves as a manual for the show. Yet, before picking a card from the 

Blending as Resistance: Peppi Bottrop | Mousse | review

Blending as Resistance: Peppi Bottrop | Mousse | review

Regarding the artist’s working space, Daniel Buren once wrote that the studio frames the reality and truth of an artwork. In his text The Function of the Studio (1979) he suggested that the work of art ultimately belongs in the studio, because it is only