At Teruko Yokoi’s retrospective at Marlborough Gallery, which includes fifty works spanning from 1957 to 2012, I had the feeling that the paintings were somehow twinkling or gleaming as I walked through the galleries.
Anna Ting Möller’s transdisciplinary practice is propelled by an overpowering story of origin. In 2015, she traveled to Yueyang, a humid and warm port city in southwestern China, in search of her birth mother, to no avail. Instead, a woman whom she stayed with gifted her a symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeast (SCOBY), or what is colloquially referred to as a “mother.”
Science fiction is largely a projection of our own fears about ourselves, and in these two exhibitions of graphic works and several choice sculptures, Bhabha plays with the struggle to enter into the minds of our ancestors, as well as the unpleasant acknowledgement of a creepy pseudo-fascism or impulse to domination that seems to inhere in a great deal of archaic art.