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Anti-Arborescent: Pomegranate as Rhizome and the Refusal of the Root

Erifyli Theofilou stages the pomegranate as method, turning fourteen artists into a rhizomatic field of chance, liveness, and shared authority with no central artwork.

Tristan Gac, five carved pine works gripping framed pencil drawings of chain-link fence and flame, chrome half-skulls fused into the boards, tiled wall

NO FATE: Tristan Gac's Flowers That Outlast the Blast

Tristan Gac turns the nuclear apocalypse into a botanical time loop, where dandelions grip the burning fence long after the last skull has cooled into chrome.

Installation view, New Grotesque, Management, New York — cover, group exhibition 2026

Horror Without Permission: The New Grotesque at Management NYC

Management stages fifteen artists as a collective argument that distortion, abjection, and absurdity are now the only honest forms available to a reality amplified past bearing by the image-machine.

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Zishi Han and Laurence Sturla turn the map into an unstable instrument, tracing how cartography extracts, displaces, and possesses the ground it claims only to describe.

The First Act of Possession: Zishi Han and Laurence Sturla's NADIR

Installation view of NADIR by Zishi Han and Laurence Sturla at Gianni Manhattan, Vienna. Beaded steel-wire nets hang beside a graphite-black landscape casting set in a shallow reflecting pool.

Alexander McQueen restages his own defining runway moments as a one-night séance in black, turning the retrospective into a reliquary of rain, thorns, and collapse.

A Survey Staged as a Séance: Alexander McQueen's Black

Tender Aggression: CUTE BUT PSYCHO and the Liturgy of Platform Affect

Five artists turn the cute, the cringe, and the zany into a diagram of platform capitalism, where affect is currency, attention is labor, and adorability is a trap.

TheHunterIssue Vol.1 by Leo Shmunk

Leo Shmunk turns TheHunterIssue Vol.1 into a critique-via-erasure, draining brand logos and celebrity faces to monochrome silhouettes that hold the fashion cycle in suspension.

Soft Armors: ‘MY FAKE NAILS MY REAL CLAWS’ and the Glamour of the Lethal Object

Thirteen artists turn the accessory into a soft armor: trophy and diary, ornament and weapon, the closet rewritten as a reliquary of becoming, where the next self waits sharpened.

Echoes That Refuse to Fade by Yesakova, Struger & Palyvoda

Three artists assemble the anatomical theatre as a living structure: dissection tables, ceramic relics, and mirror-shards mapping the body as site where power inscribes itself and refuses to dissolve.

Strange Rules by Mat Dryhurst and Holly Herndon

Cognition keeps showing up where we did not put it. Strange Rules turns Palazzo Diedo into a working laboratory for that suspicion, with Picbreeder and planarian worms as its strangest witnesses.

The Colors Within by Naoko Yamada

Naoko Yamada turns a Catholic girls' school, a teenage rock band and a synesthete's watercolour vision into a soft liturgy on faith, friendship and unspoken queer longing.

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Humiliation Rituals

Where identity is just content, what happens when the likes dry up?

Understanding the ‘Slopocene’

How the failures of AI can reveal its inner workings

Neo-Futurism

As Silicon Valley adopts a century-old movement’s aesthetics, Spike’s editor at large resumes her tech column to ask: What forces compel us to reach back to some romanticized past?

The rise and rise of Lotta Volkova

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New Genesis: Abdulhamid Kircher's Cartography of American Care

Abdulhamid Kircher turns four years inside a Los Angeles household into a testimony of repetition, exhaustion and the welfare state's quiet refusals.

New Genesis by Abdulhamid Kircher — bathroom counter with crucifix, breast pump basket and feeding bottles photographed in a Los Angeles apartment.

Blue Blooded: Hannah Levy's Pharmaceutical Bestiary

Hannah Levy turns the horseshoe crab into a mineralized liturgy of silicone, chrome, and cobalt glass: a pharmaceutical bestiary staged in a Sardinian washhouse.

Hannah Levy, wall sconce of polished stainless steel pincers gripping a misshapen cobalt-glass orb against a white wall, reading as an oversized insect pinned in mid-flight

Li Hui — The Crack into Sleep Is the Crack into Dreaming

Odyssea: Le sel de la terre at Spiaggia Libera and PUNTA Gallery

Spectral Armour: Floryan Varennes at Xxijra Hii

The Fire and Its Ghosts: Ghirardelli and Luzi

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