Insight: Emily Blair Quinn at 5-50 Gallery NYC
This review examines Emily Blair Quinn’s exhibition at 5-50 Gallery, focusing on her paintings, resin sculptures, and photographs that reinterpret vintage porcelain figurines through a contemporary feminist lens. Drawing on Gilded Age aesthetics and themes of gender norms, beauty standards, and female subjectivity, Quinn transforms decorative statuary into psychologically charged narratives. The exhibition critiques historical and contemporary constructions of femininity, including the impact of social media and AI-driven beauty culture, presenting a cohesive body of work grounded in feminist aesthetics and material experimentation.
Whispers on the Horizon: The 14th Taipei Biennial
Whispers on the Horizon: The 14th Taipei Biennial examines how the Taipei Fine Arts Museum’s latest biennial navigates the tension between international visibility and local cultural specificity. Framed around the concept of “yearning”—defined as migration, identity, memory, and futurity—the exhibition reveals both the strengths and limitations of its curatorial structure. Through close analysis of works by Shiy De-Jinn, Hera Büyüktaşçıyan, Korakrit Arunanondchai, Skyler Chen, and Ni Hao, the essay interrogates how the Biennial negotiates Taiwan’s geopolitical positioning within global contemporary art. While visually compelling and institutionally ambitious, the 14th Taipei Biennial ultimately exposes the unresolved friction between global validation and self-definition.
Woody Allen, Diomedes Díaz and Pablo Escobar: Culture, Masculinity and Catalytic Figures in Contemporary Society
Daniel Santiago explores popular culture, masculinity, controversy and eccentric characters through figures like Woody Allen, Diomedes Díaz and Pablo Escobar, in a critical and queer-informed cultural reflection.
Work planner by Ana Victoria Jiménez: Archive, Care Labor, and the Politics of Time
An in-depth review of Cuaderno de tareas / Work planner by Ana Victoria Jiménez, Yohanna M Roa exploring feminist archives, domestic labor, performative book design, and the politics of care. Published in INES Magazina.
The Naughty Rebellion
A critical essay on Mia Westerlund Roosen’s exhibition at Nunu Fine Art, New York, reading sculpture through flesh, materiality, dance, and Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz’s Primero sueño.
Jeanne Jaffe: Becoming Hybrid, Emilio Martinez: Freedom From Fear. At L’Space
Art critic Dominick Lombardi explores the compelling dialogue between Jeanne Jaffe and Emilio Martinez at L’Space, where hybrid bodies, faith, migration, humor, and resistance converge into two distinct yet deeply connected artistic worlds.
The Everyday as Exhibition
Critical review of The Everyday as Exhibition, a text by Nekane Aramburu on the CAPC Bordeaux exhibition, contemporary art, everyday life, and practices of resistance.
Germinal Nodes: Reconfiguring Art History Narratives
A critical review of Germinal Nodes by Nekane Aramburu, examining alternative art spaces, self-management, and new art historiographies in the 1990s.
Happy Birthday Antonio Caro. (1950 – 2021)
A tribute essay to Antonio Caro (1950–2021) by Yohanna M. Roa, revisiting the 2014 postcard book published by Fundación Humana Integral and the exhibition Caro es de Todos. A reflection on his lasting relevance, conceptual rigor, and influence on Latin American visual culture.
Decolonial Aesthetics and Embodied Resistance
An analysis of contemporary decolonial feminist artistic practices from Cali, exploring bodies, memory, and resistance through photography, performance, transfeminist art, and political craft. Featuring Vanessa Quintero Castañeda, Yohanna M. Roa, Saro Agustina Pachón, and Andrea Valencia.