Travelogue: ‘Notes on a Visit of the Haji Widayat Museum in Central Java’

Location: Widayat Museum, Mungkid

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Curatorial Project: ‘The Mindful’

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Interview with Apichatpong Weerasethakul: ‘A Dream Is Like Another Life Recurring’

With his Primitive exhibition Apichatpong Weerasethakul ties into a long-standing tradition of artistic involvement with the notion of the primitive. His work is among those artists’ practices that motivate a reactivation of the discourse about the primitive in relation to contemporary art and geopolitical contexts. Read more..

Exhibition: ‘Tala Madani – The Jinn’

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‘The Jinn’ presents a powerful and elaborately constructed new body of painted, drawn and animated work by Tala Madani. Arab folklore and Islamic teachings depict the jinn as mythological creatures with magical powers who occupy a world next to our own, in which they intervene without restraint. By tracing the potential intrigues of these demons, Madani scrutinizes human obsessive behaviour and then skilfully sketches her observations – distinctly peppered with a dose of fantasy – upon canvases and sheets of paper. Read more..