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16  brings together a group of works that consider the material and social conditions of fragmentation. The exhibition is titled after Hanna Rochereau’s imposing painting 16, which alongside a new sculptural installation, brings together research into both the archive and retail display as sites purposed for the containment of fragmentary data. In R...

The nargile diptychs unfold as a string of concatenated vanishing points, or prayer beads, a cityscape even. Their status as fixed objects seems secondary to the tacit mechanics of usage they embody: ignition, filtration, combustion, and recirculation. Their bottles oscillate between originating vessels and dead ends, while the diptych format locks the gaze horizontally, like...

Adduction is the anatomical opposite of abduction; it refers to the movement of limbs inwards towards the centre of the body. The alien autopsy is an adduction. It reverses the fear of alien abduction, it is the alien rather than the human which is abducted and subject to experimentation, inwards to earth rather than outwards to sky. As with much UFO lore, the threat of invas...

The following conversation with artist Tai Shani, revolving around cinema, utopian militancy, and speculative scripts of justice amidst the genocidal present, comes from Desire for Transmission: On Movements of Materials and Knowledges, the second volume of Basel Dialogues, a new critical book series, published every two years, from the Basel Academy of Art ...

Angela de la Cruz, Abi Palmer, Avril Corroon, Bella Milroy, Benoît Piéron, Carolyn Lazard, Christine Sun Kim, Constantina Zavitsanos, Derek Jarman, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Freestylers, Jamila Prowse, Jesse Darling, Jjjjjerome Ellis, Leah Clements, Lizzy Rose, Park McArthur, RA Walden and Racheal Crowther.

Flare-Up will be the first institutional exhibiti...