Eva Scharrer

 Still from LuYang, DOKU the Self , 2022, 3D animation film, 36 min. All images © LuYang. Courtesy: LuYang and Société, Berlin

Still from LuYang, DOKU the Self, 2022, 3D animation film, 36 min. All images © LuYang. Courtesy: LuYang and Société, Berlin

New video works at Palais Populaire starring LuYang’s hyperreal, reincarnating avatar spell out their street-styled vision of mortal, spiritual, and virtual realms.

 Aleksandra Domanović, Things to Come (2014) (detail). Photo: Ugnius Gelguda

Aleksandra Domanović, Things to Come (2014) (detail). Photo: Ugnius Gelguda

 

Eva Scharrer visits Baltic Triennial 14, searching for a stable sense of place amidst the (art)world’s dizzying reopening. But has geography ever really been immutable, or is change the only constant?

 Agnes Denes, Wheatfield – A Confrontation: Battery Park Landfill, Downtown Manhattan – With New York Financial Center , 1982

Agnes Denes, Wheatfield – A Confrontation: Battery Park Landfill, Downtown Manhattan – With New York Financial Center, 1982

”Down To Earth“ at Gropius Bau, John Miller at Schinkel Pavillon, John Heartfield at Akademie der Künste 

 Photo: Elmar Vestner

Photo: Elmar Vestner

An interview with Elmgreen & Dragset, the curators of the 15th Istanbul Biennale, by Eva Scharrer