Que le cheval vive en moi (May the horse live in me)
Art Orienté objet, Que le cheval vive en moi, 2011. Photo: Miha Fras The Casino de Luxembourg has, once again, put up an show worth a trip to the capital of the tiny Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. Second...
View ArticleSecond Lives: Jeux masqués et autres Je
Hermine Bourgadier, Dragon Ball Z, 2009 Today more and more people decide to escape reality in order to make up a new identity. Some are donning a “mask” that allows them to express themselves freely....
View ArticleMondes inventés, Mondes habités (“Invented Worlds, Inhabited Worlds”)
The MUDAM museum in Luxembourg has recently opened a remarkable exhibition where artists -who double as thinkers, engineers or architects- get to grips with questions of a scientific and metaphysical...
View ArticleA Moroccan hand-crafted copy of a Mercedes-Benz V12 engine
Eric van Hove, V12 Laraki Gear Box, 2015. View of the exhibition Eppur si muove . Art and technology, a shared sphere, Mudam Luxembourg. Photo: Rémi Villaggi, Metz / Mudam Luxembourg There is a truly...
View ArticleArriba! A tropical time capsule in Antarctica
Paul Rosero Contreras, Arriba!, 2017 (détail). Photo by PRC and Narodzkiy Last year, during the Antarctic Biennale, Paul Rosero Contreras installed a kind of tropical time capsule right in the...
View ArticlePost-Capital. Art and the Economics of the Digital Age
In 1993, a management professor and sociologist called Peter Drucker published Post-Capitalist Society. The book predicted that the impact of information technology on the labour market would be so...
View ArticleImages at Work. A cinematic view on the working class
In 1895, Louis Lumière presented a private demo of what is often called “the first motion picture of cinematographic history”: La Sortie de l’Usine Lumière à Lyon (usually translated in English as...
View ArticleRayyane Tabet. Weaving together glass, war and dispossession
Over the past few weeks, I have been thinking again and again about Trilogy, an installation by Rayyane Tabet at MUDAM in Luxembourg. I wasn’t planning to write about it but the work is haunting me. I...
View ArticleMy Last Will. “Besides, it’s always the others who die”
What remains after you’re gone? For most of us, the answer to the question translates into money and material goods that might be passed on to friends and family. Ask that same question to an artist...
View ArticleAgnieszka Kurant. Risk Landscape
Many of us think that we inhabit a linear, coherent, anthropocentric world. Agnieszka Kurant rejects this simplistic belief. Today’s world is increasingly being shaped by a multitude of intelligent...
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