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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.

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The Dolls That Won't Stop Watching: Gisèle Vienne's 40 Portraits

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.

Woodland Silence: One Hundred Years of Meditative Space in Stockholm's 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.

Georges Salameh’s ASNAM

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

An exhibition where apocalypse becomes methodology, Myths from Smoldering Skies gathers four artists who sculpt new mythologies from the debris of our saturated, unstable visual present.

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

A descent into Most Dismal Swamp’s unnervingly lucid universe, where bog bodies, AI ghosts, and collapsing realities merge into a hallucinatory critique of our algorithmic present.

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

Adrián Villar Rojas’ apocalyptic garden overtakes Seoul’s Art Sonje Center in a feral, entropic installation that blurs AI, extinction, and ecology into an architecture of collapse.

Rituals for the Unclassified: Esteban Chanez’s The Beasts

Esteban Chanez's The Beasts reanimates medieval bestiaries into ritualistic ecosystems where fantasy, queerness, and clay converge into an unruly taxonomy of tenderness.

OXIS: 7000 Feet Below

DOOM: Inside Anne Imhof’s “House of Hope” through the eyes of Tess Petronio

Holly Herndon & Mat Dryhurst’s Starmirror: Toward an AI Liturgy of Collective Intelligence

Tender Apocalypses: Precious Okoyomon’s Worlds of Relation at the Edge of Collapse

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