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I last visited an art gallery on 25 February 2020, more than a year ago. In that time I’ve looked through all of my photobooks, re-hung my limited selection of reproductions and posters and gaffa-taped a banana to my wall, but none of these have replicated visiting an actual gallery.
Luckily the curator Hans Ulrich Obrist has a solution for me – and for anyone feeling deprived of art. The ‘Do it’ initiative he started in 1993 along with the artists Christian Boltanski and Bertrand Lavier has been expanded for lockdown times, with more artists adding to the project. Each artist’s contribution takes the form of a set of instructions, some more conceptual (Virgil Abloh’s asks us to ‘Understand the nature of man’), some more concrete (Thao Nguyen Phan asks us to ‘Dig a hole, plant a seed’). These instructions are published on the Serpentine Galleries’ Twitter page and through a site on Google Arts & Culture. Stuck at home during the third UK national lockdown, I d
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This fall, a neat row of six cracked televisions suspended precisely one metre apart welcomed MOCA Toronto’s visitors as they entered the museum’s lobby. This video installation titled
Medusa (2020), by the Ramallah-based architect and visual artist Yazan Khalili, was commissioned by the Consortium Commissions an initiative supported by Mophradat (Brussels) and various partnering institutions, including MOCA Toronto, Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, CCA in Glasgow, and KW in Berlin.
Yazan Khalili is known for his extensive research into facial recognition technologies and for drawing parallels with Indigenous and classical masks. In Greek mythology, Medusa is the female figure with venomous snakes in lieu of hair, whose gaze turns humans to stone. Khalili was reminded of the goddess as he photographed a collection of Greek masks and the facial recognition feature of his iPhone identified the stone carvings as human faces symbolica