Zoë Hopkins

1 month ago | frieze.com | Zoë Hopkins

I need a new word. The trouble with calling these works ‘paintings’ is that the term cannot convey or contain what Jack Whitten was doing with paint. The pieces on view in ‘The Messenger’ – Whitten’s retrospective at MoMA – exceed painting: they reach past the medium, live beyond its edges. In these paintings-that-exceed-painting, we find a study of movement and physics; a discourse on photo theory; a language and a philosophy of language; a music.

Jan 15, 2025 | frieze.com | Zoë Hopkins

Racial catastrophe is the ongoing crescendo of the unspeakable. Always a resonance at the low end of sonic frequency, it catches in the air and quietly transforms it, enters the body and vibrates within it. The ear has no choice but to keep listening. In Char Jeré’s show ‘Remembering the Mind: A Study in Progress’,the unremitting and atmospheric sonorities of our racialized order are refracted through concatenated sound installations, paintings and sculptural assemblages.

Jan 14, 2025 | family.style | Zoë Hopkins |Emily Simon |Ann Binlot

When Rick Lowe was growing up in Russell County, Alabama, those close to him often wondered if he would become a preacher. Not necessarily because he conveyed any deep religiosity, but rather because he embodied a different idea of devotion: the kind that sprung from a love for the people around him, from an understanding of their realities and his own, and from the knowledge that better realities were both needed and attainable.

Jan 14, 2025 | abandomoviez.net | Zoë Hopkins |Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers

"Little Bird" - 45' - Canadá - Drama Puntúala Insertar Esta miniserie explora el oscuro mercado negro de niños indígenas en Canadá, donde muchos bebés de jóvenes indígenas fueron forzosamente “adoptados” por familias blancas como parte de una política gubernamental racista ahora conocida como la Scoop de los sesenta. Bezhig Little Bird, arrancada de su hogar en la Reserva Long Pine en Saskatchewan a los 5 años, es adoptada por una familia judía en + Montreal y renombrada como Esther...

Jan 3, 2025 | frieze.com | Zoë Hopkins

By the time Renée Green was a senior at Wesleyan University in 1980, she was already keen to adopt an interdisciplinary approach to her creative practice. She understood that she was both an artist and a writer. She also understood that she wanted to write about her artwork and had, in fact, already begun to do so. What she couldn’t understand were those precepts that alienated artists from their desire to write, speak or engage in discourse about their work.