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Creative Destruction: Ghirardelli and Luzi's Rituals of Fire and Residue

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

Coordinates of Suspension: Davide Allieri 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.

Total Loss at Wrecker's Art Space

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.

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Cold Front: Trey Abdella’s Winter Pageant of Domestic Dread and Synthetic Intimacy

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

The Bear That Ate Immortality: Stine Deja's Micro Management

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.

Tidal, Porous, and Fragmentary by Arianna Ladogana

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.

Public Life Subscriptions by Joseph Klahr

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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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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Georges Salameh’s ASNAM and the Surreal Monumentality of Faith in Lebanon

Georges Salameh’s ASNAM maps Lebanon’s fractured postwar psyche through a surreal proliferation of religious statues invading urban space—both absurdly banal and quietly insurgent.

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

Andrew Roberts turns gamer vernacular into necropolitical cartography, staging a zombie LAN party where adolescence, violence, and digital memory collapse into a single haunted interface.

MYTHS FROM SMOLDERING SKIES

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

Terraforming the Ruins: Adrián Villar Rojas and the Syntax of Our Disappearance

Rituals for the Unclassified: Esteban Chanez’s The Beasts

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