EVA SCHARRER is an art historian, curator, writer, and translator based in Berlin.
Cued by a satirical wager between Napoleon and St. Francis of Assisi, the Graz art festival makes a wry case that war’s “before times” are already behind us.
Blending ancient and futuristic notions of transcendence with visual keys from hip-hop, manga, and gaming, the videos of “DOKU Experience Center” play out a quest to escape illusion.
Searching Vilnius for a sense of place amid the (art)world’s dizzying reopening, the question arises: has geography ever really been immutable, or is change the only constant?
