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Evelyn Taocheng Wang: Reflection Paper
Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen
JAN 12–MAY 16
In Evelyn Taocheng Wang’s practice, the slipperiness of language is central. “Reflection Paper” featured several works that toy with para-fiction, starring Wang and artists who have influenced her. The ink-and-pencil drawing False Poster (2020) depicts a version of Wang shopping in Turin in the year 1889; the words at the top read, “Die Welt als Wile und Vorstellung” (The World as Will and Representation), alluding to her queries around how we conceive of ourselves and others. The rectangular canvases of her Clinic Agnes Martin (2020) series playfully distort Agnes Martin’s precisely proportioned square compositions, on top of which she added her seal and bibliographic notes. Through these works, she suggests subject-formation as a process of narrative exchange—endlessly mutable and interdependent.
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MANILA
Santiago Bose: Striking Affinities
Silverlens
MAR 20–APR 24
Santiago Bose always traveled with an anticolonial, peripherally attuned perspective. “Striking Affinities,” the second exhibition of a three-part series curated by Patrick Flores, displayed more than 30 (2002), which meditates on the Philippines’s American colonization. Later sojourns were reflected in the documentation of the Adelaide street performance and installations (1994), the collaged pages of his (2000), and his politically charged works about the disputed Spratly Islands. Bose’s mark-making and layering not only possess his essence but also the spirit of a place.
