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A Pronoun for Two: Jan Baszak and the Lament of the Third Deer

Jan Baszak stages Within and For Each Other as a pronoun built for two: albino roe deer bound by synthetic saliva, and a third, left outside the exchange, given only a lament.

Installation view of persona. fragments of identity, curated by Barbara Horvath, at THE HALL, PART International Art Residency, Vienna, 2026

The Mold Behind the Mask: PERSONA and the Self as an Imperfect Copy

Odie Lap Chun Chow, Edith Karlson, Jakob Lena Knebl, Yein Lee and Paulina Semkowicz turn the persona into a casting process, in which every mask is a mold and every self an imperfect cast.

Common Skin Fantasy by Alicia Bilbao and Alejandra Moros

Alicia Bilbao and Alejandra Moros turn Didier Anzieu's common skin fantasy, the infant's belief that it and its mother share one skin, into a weaning rite of hair, bone, beeswax and oil paint.

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Evil Biscuit strips vintage holographic cards down to bare silver foil and prints Drifella over the wreckage, turning destruction into a working theology of rebirth.

Burn to Redeem: Evil Biscuit and the Theology of the Trading Card

Monia Ben Hamouda, Jordi Mitjà and their kin cast, imprint and discard their way toward images that did not exist before, turning a deconsecrated Catalan church into an argument for the negative.

Impression, Offcut, Ghost: KIN TOO and the Language of the Negative

Sahatsa Jauregi's Pájaros: five slumped black rubber boots on a raised stone platform in a frescoed side chapel of the Church of Sant Feliu, Lladó, cut-steel branches and crosses rising from them.

A Gentle Kiss On A Double Forehead by Jan Baszak

Jan Baszak lines an old brick tower in faux leather and turns catafalques, a sock dog and a two-headed calf into a liturgy of attention paid to what cannot look back

Hairline Fractures: Angelika Puff's Reliquary of Hair, Rupture, and Inheritance

Angelika Puff turns hair into a material archive of attachment, staging inheritance and loss in a Gothic church where every bond frays yet never fully severs.

Anti-Arborescent: The Pomegranate as Rhizome and the Refusal of the Root

Erifyli Theofilou stages the pomegranate as method, turning fourteen artists into a rhizomatic field of chance, liveness, and shared authority with no central artwork.

NO FATE: Tristan Gac's Flowers That Outlast the Blast

Tristan Gac turns the nuclear apocalypse into a botanical time loop, where dandelions grip the burning fence long after the last skull has cooled into chrome.

Installation view, New Grotesque, Management, New York — cover, group exhibition 2026

Horror Without Permission: The New Grotesque at Management NYC

Management stages fifteen artists as a collective argument that distortion, abjection, and absurdity are now the only honest forms available to a reality amplified past bearing by the image-machine.

NADIR by Zishi Han and Laurence Sturla

Zishi Han and Laurence Sturla turn the map into an unstable instrument, tracing how cartography extracts, displaces, and possesses the ground it claims only to describe.

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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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A Survey Staged as a Séance: Alexander McQueen's Black

Alexander McQueen restages his own defining runway moments as a one-night séance in black, turning the retrospective into a reliquary of rain, thorns, and collapse.

Tender Aggression: CUTE BUT PSYCHO and the Liturgy of Platform Affect

Five artists turn the cute, the cringe, and the zany into a diagram of platform capitalism, where affect is currency, attention is labor, and adorability is a trap.

CUTE BUT PSYCHO, Gallery Novo, Pula, 2026. Dolphin-human hybrid on marble-print backdrop with faux-fur docking station. Photo: Ivan Buvinić.

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Soft Armors: ‘MY FAKE NAILS MY REAL CLAWS’ and the Glamour of the Lethal Object

Echoes That Refuse to Fade by Yesakova, Struger & Palyvoda

Strange Rules by Mat Dryhurst and Holly Herndon

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