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Jan 20, 2025 | 
artasiapacific.com | Sophia Powers
Shows Park Seo-BoThe Newspaper Ecritures, 2022–23White Cube, New YorkNov 8, 2024–Jan 11, 2025Ha Chong-Hyun50 Years of ConjunctionTina Kim Gallery, New YorkNov 7, 2024–Dec 21, 2024If the Korean monochromemovement known as Dansaekhwa has been typically understood as exemplifying notionsof emptiness and non-action, then one has to marvel at just how many of its central works have resonated with viewers.
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Nov 15, 2024 | 
observer.com | Sophia Powers
Highlights from a Busy Paris Photo, Where Business Was Booming In the Grand Palais, a maze of blue-chip prints, work by emerging talent and digital provocations proved that the world’s appetite for photography is as insatiable—and lucrative—as ever. The Main sector took up most of the ground floor with booths mounted by 147 largely blue-chip galleries.
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Sep 25, 2024 | 
observer.com | Sophia Powers
An Archaic Bronze Drinking Vessel Was the Star of the Autumn Asia Week New York Auctions We've rounded up the other standout lots in Sotheby’s and Christie’s Asian Art Week sales. An Insho (Seal-Type) Sashi-Netsuke realized $37,800 over a high estimate of $5,000.
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Aug 29, 2024 | 
artnews.com | Sophia Powers
This past April, just weeks before the opening of Dak’Art, Africa’s largest and longest-running biennial, the Senegalese Minister of Culture abruptly postponed the event citing unrest stemming from the recent political turmoil surrounding the former president’s proposal to postpone national elections. Senegal’s democratic exceptionalism within a continent rife with military coups was at stake. Protesters set tires ablaze. Tear gas was fired.
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Feb 29, 2024 | 
artforum.com | Sophia Powers |Elinore Weil |Davida Fernandez-Barkan |Jonathan Anderson
Enchanted by the 1-54 Art Fair in Marrakech“THIS THING IS REALLY HERE TO STAY,” I heard a bejeweled collector proclaim on the steps of La Mamounia, the inimitably luxurious hotel located in the heart of Marrakech. And so began the fifth edition of the city’s 1-54 Art Fair. Other guests repeated the lady’s claim as the fair unfolded over the next four days. And they didn’t just say it: They gushed it, laughed it, and took my hand so that I would really believe it—and I did.
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Feb 29, 2024 | 
artasiapacific.com | Sophia Powers
Issue Candice Lin’s recent solo exhibition, “Lithium Sex Demons in the Factory,” was as strange as it sounds. The immersive installation clacked and oozed and enveloped viewers in an environment that was as amusing as it was confounding. At the front of the gallery stood a series of laboratory-like stations cluttered with tubes and tinctures, clocks, and spinning gadgets as well as animated videos mounted in clunky frames that evoked atrophied technological apparatus.
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Aug 29, 2023 | 
artforum.com | Sophia Powers
Berlin C/O Berlin Hardenbergstraße 22-24Amerika-Haus May 13–September 6, 2023 Susan Sontag would have loved “Poltergeist,” Farah Al Qasimi’s vivid, chillingly pleasurable solo exhibition at C/O Berlin. Think Notes on Camp, UAE style: Domestic life, consumer culture, and the fantasies that connect the two offer up a road map to a no-man’s-land (pun-intended) that may, for some, elucidate a specifically feminine subjectivity in the Gulf States.
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Jun 28, 2023 | 
artforum.com | Sophia Powers
Kartik Sood, Dilemma of being you (you are but you are not) II, 2022–23, watercolor, gouache, graphite, dry pastel, collage, and pigmented ink on paper, 38 x 35 1/4". New York Talwar Gallery | New York 108 East 16 Street April 22–July 28, 2023 Kartik Sood’s solo debut in the US, “Elusive Spaces,” is an achievement of aching delicacy. Semitransparent, often partial renderings of human figures hover amid smoky forests and haunting crepuscular interiors.
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May 30, 2023 | 
artforum.com | Sophia Powers
Marrakech Musée Yves Saint Laurent | Marrakech Rue Yves Saint LaurentMajorelle March 4–July 2, 2023 Much like the artist it celebrates, “Cy Twombly: Morocco 1952/1953” does a lot with very little. This small, intelligent exhibition offers a glimpse into the nearly five months the artist spent exploring Morocco with Robert Rauschenberg in the winter of 1952 and the spring of 1953. Physical evidence of these adventures is sparse.
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Apr 18, 2023 | 
artforum.com | Sophia Powers
Tangier Gallery Kent 19, Rua Jabha Wataniya March 10–May 10, 2023 “Des Figures” (The Figures) issues a challenge to a world awash with superficial surfaces, selfies, and screenshots. Thoughtfully curated by Olivier Rachet, the exhibition brings together the figurative work of eight Moroccan artists in a crescendo of expressive gestures, both angst-ridden and ecstatic.
