Hyperallergic on Tanya Aguiñiga’s work in W|alls: Defend, Divide, and the Divine at The Annenberg Space for Photography: “But more than external manifestations of a land divided, border walls often become internalized by those who come into daily contact with them. Born in Tijuana and educated in San Diego, Tanya Aguiñiga has long explored this existential rift through her ongoing, multifaceted AMBOS project, several works of which are represented in Walls. Her performance piece Grapple (2018) viscerally illustrates this fissure. Wearing a white linen shirt, Aguiñiga wrapped her body around the rusting iron pillars of the US–Mexico border wall at the ocean’s edge for the course of a tide cycle. The resultant video along with her shirt, bisected by an iron-oxide stain, speak to this personal cleft that is both a painful incision as well as a potential space for growth and renewal.” Read more about the exhibition here.
As Walls Go Up at Unprecedented Rates, Artists Use Them as Subversive Canvases
November 22, 2019
Site-Specific Installations Accentuate the Geometric Architecture of Mies Van Der Rohe
November 14, 2019
Geometries of Light by Luftwerk in collaboration with Iker Gil & Oriol Tarragó donned the 2nd part of its trans-national installation at the Farnsworth House in Chicago in October 2019. Eight months after the earlier rendition at the German Pavillion in Barcelona–another of Mies Van Der Rohe’s buildings–the Farnsworth House and surrounding woods were lit with geometric red lasers. Read reviews of Luftwerk’s installation from Colossal, Hypebeast, Dezeen, Archdaily, and Newcity Design.
Jonathan Olivares’ pop-up for Hem is a nod to local skate and surf culture
November 13, 2019
For a limited run of 30 days in fall 2019, Jonathan Olivares collaborated with Stockholm-based furniture design studio Hem to create a pop-up store in San Francisco. Olivares sectioned the space with brightly colored room dividers and had signage hand-painted on the walls and windows as a visual ode to SF’s vibrant graffiti art. Read more from AN Interior here.
Five Other Shows to See During the Chicago Biennial
November 4, 2019
Architect Magazine lists Tigerman Rides Again as the “most poignant among” the offsite architecture & design based exhibitions concurrent with the 2019 Chicago Architecture Biennial. Following Tigerman’s show at Volume, Architect Magazine invites readers to visit the MCA, Art Institute, Graham Foundation, and Chicago Architecture Center to see architects address social problems through and within the built environment. Read about “The Final Works of a Chicago Master” and four other notable shows here.
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