Akeem Smith’s new works, presented by Heidi at Art Basel Miami Beach, appear like weathered relics. Rusted metal frames, contorted gates, and fragments of walls are conjoined, holding within them flickering images of faces. The photographs and VHS stills feel as though they’re surfacing through the material itself, tugging the eye toward excavated stories. Raised…
Accra. The first thing you notice is the heat. Not the gentle kind that warms the skin, but a thick, breathing heat that turns the air into something tactile, alive with red dust, incense, and the scent of fresh concrete baking beneath the Ghanaian sun. Then comes the sound, a low metallic hum, like machinery…
On the heels of his solo show, Pharmakon at Wschód gallery, Polish artist Cezary Poniatowski speaks with Something Curated’s Keshav Anand about the uncanny pull of his new works and what it’s like working as an artist in Warsaw today. His recent reliefs, stitched together from carpets and bits of domestic hardware, carry a quiet…
Over a video call on a late autumn afternoon, GOME are under the blankets of a hotel bed in Barcelona, recovering from the night before. They’ve just played at Tunnel, one of the city’s key underground spots – an exhilarating night midway through their latest European tour. GOME are Robin Townshend and Julian Marks, two…
Since founding DRIFT in Amsterdam in 2007, Lonneke Gordijn and Ralph Nauta have been investigating the relationship between nature, technology and emotion. The studio’s light-based sculptures and performances explore the invisible systems that connect us to the natural world. Their work has appeared everywhere from the Centre Pompidou and Victoria & Albert Museum to New…
On the top-floor of Whitechapel Gallery, an elaborate cardboard labyrinth rises from the ground. The maker of this immersive installation, American artist Candice Lin’s practice has long been rooted in storytelling, exploring how colonial legacies, social histories, and personal grief coexist in the present tense. Lin has exhibited widely with major exhibitions at the Jameel…
“It is in this shared space of remembering that healing grows and we reconnect to something larger than ourselves,” Akram Khan tells me, discussing his latest work, Thikra, made in collaboration with Saudi artist Manal AlDowayan – who represented her country at the Venice Biennale last year. Born out of the vast expanse of AlUla’s…
Nearly a decade ago, artist Nick Cave and curator Laura Mott transformed Detroit with Here Hear, a citywide collaboration that brought together and celebrated performance, music, and community. A landmark cultural moment, the project didn’t just fill spaces; it reimagined how an entire city thought about art as a collective act. Now, the pair reunite…