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Salt of the Earth: Odyssea's Corrosive Index

A Bulgarian-French group show unfolds across two Varna spaces: six artists render biomatter, myth, and Mediterranean memory through latex, blood, chitin, amphorae, and charred debris.

Floryan Varennes, Even Spectres Can Tire, installation view at Xxijra Hii London, PVC and glass orthotic forms in clinical gallery space, 2026

Spectral Armour: Floryan Varennes at Xxijra Hii

Floryan Varennes constructs an artificial medical garden at Xxijra Hii — PVC, glass, and steel orthoses suspending the body between protection and confinement, survival and transformation.

The Fire and Its Ghosts: Ghirardelli and Luzi

Nicola Ghirardelli and Andrea Luzi stage fire as co-creative agent — not destruction but transformation, where sculpture becomes relic and painting becomes liturgy.

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Coordinates of Suspension: Davide Allieri’s Non-Time at Kunstraum Dornbirn

Davide Allieri transforms a set of GPS coordinates into a threshold state — fibreglass shells, drone-bodies, and low-frequency drone suspending Dornbirn in a present without direction or memory.

Camping Out Inside the Breakdown: Total Loss at Wrecker's

Five artists occupy a former motorcycle wreckers in Brisbane — Holly Eddington curates damage, Benjamin's angel, and the insurance term for when repair is declared unviable.

Cold Front by Trey Abdella at Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler

Trey Abdella fills Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler with resin, hologram fans, and broken ceramic angels — winter spectacle as emotional special effect, tenderness frozen into display.

Stine Deja's Micro Management: Last Survivors and the Biology of Forever

At Viborg Kunsthal, Stine Deja breeds a monumental human-bear hybrid in a neon-green lab — a total installation about survival, cryonics, and the hubris of forever.

兆 - Écritures automatiques by Rémi Lécussan

At Songshan Lake Boxes Art Museum in Dongguan, Rémi Lécussan stages an ecology of low energy and ephemeral memory—where stuttering voice assistants, mechanized carp, and algorithm-piloted pigs become oracles speaking against computational dominance.

Außerkörperliche Erfahrung: Wandering Spirit by Jura Shust

Jura Shust entombs discarded Christmas trees in synthetic amber and feeds MRI scans to neural networks — a techno-animist séance at Management, New York.

Gisèle Vienne: 40 Portraits and the Color of Anguish

Gisèle Vienne's handmade dolls stare back with glazed eyes and bruised skin — 40 portraits that turn voyeurism into a trap and innocence into a crime scene.

Skogskyrkogården: The Woodland Cemetery

Andy Liffner's decade-long photographic study captures Asplund and Lewerentz's radical forest cemetery as it was always meant to be seen—not as a completed monument, but as a breathing, seasonal organism suspended between architecture and afterlife.

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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

‘I don’t look at it from a perspective of fashion.’

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Dissolving Into Connection: Arianna Ladogana's Hydrofeminist Threshold

In a historic stone church in Polignano a Mare, Arianna Ladogana submerges sculptural bodies in tanks of liquid, asking us to imagine life not as bounded and whole, but as tidal, porous, and fragmentary—a condition of endless transformation and radical interdependence.

Joseph Klahr's Public Life Subscriptions: Cruelty, Refusal, and the Architecture of Harm

Joseph Klahr's installation at Leroy's Los Angeles examines how societies oscillate between performing refusal and consuming cruelty—through the haunting case of Genie, he traces how exposure becomes extraction and empathy becomes spectacle.

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GHOST PROTOCOLS: Andrew Roberts and the Soft Code of the Undead

MYTHS FROM SMOLDERING SKIES

The Bastard Fields: Most Dismal Swamp and the Cinematics of Erosion

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