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When, on an afternoon flight from London to Berlin, my neighbour asks me what kind of art I write about, I am pleased to have an answer prepared: “painting.” For a stranger on a plane, it’s the perfect response — quick, familiar and not completely inaccurate.
In my years of traipsing around London’s commercial galleries, I have found myself most drawn to painting. It feels like the most accessible, the most friendly medium. I can imagine how a painting was made, I see the artist’s hand in it and feel that I could get to know them through their gestures. Readymades and installations, not so much. I think of these mediums as off-puttingly cerebral, unrelatable and somehow less legible than painting.
London is an expensive city and, for commercial galleries, the high rent costs here make selling imperative. As a result, painting reigns supreme. It’s hard to say whether my preference for it is authentic or an outcome of the sales-oriented art world that surrounds me. Escaping my bubble to visit Gallery Weekend Berlin, I find myself in a scene that feels freer and more adventurous, where I quickly learn that the latter is true. It only takes three days for me to be deprogrammed.
If I find obscure installations difficult, then my first stop, Galeria Isabella Bortlolozzi, is a
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Morag Keil “Postcards from Edinburgh”
April 13 - May 17, 2024
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Project Native Informant
2023Someone is Getting Rich, Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam
2023Subject to Shadowban, M+ Museum, Hong Kong2022A Wake Up Song Mr. President, Abdellia Palace, Tunis
2022The Dreamers: An Echoing, BASEMENT ROMA, Rome
2022at dawn, Julia Stoschek Collection, Berlin
2022Objects of Desire: Photography and the Language of Advertising, LACMA, Los Angeles
2021Biennale de l’Image en Mouvement, MoCA Taipei, Taiwan
2021A Goodbye Letter, A Love Call, A Wake-Up Song, Biennale de l’Image en Mouvement, Geneva2021One Escape at a Time | 11th Seoul Mediacity Biennale, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul
2021Exit World, Medellín Modern Art Museum, Medellín
2021The Dreamers, Belgrade Biennale, Belgrade
2020DIS Presents: What Do People Do All Day?, Tranen, Hellerup
2020DIS Presents: What Do People Do All Day?, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen2020DIS | Jonathan Horowitz, Sadie Coles HQ and Project Native Informant, London
2019CONDO London, Project Native Informant, London
2018up the river down the tide, Various Small Fires, Los Angeles
2018Fashion Work, Fashion Workers, CCS Bard
2018Title II, Galerie Antoine Ertaskiran, Montreal
2018I Was Raised on