Tag: Communism

Saodat Ismailova: As We Fade

Three seductive, spellbinding films demonstrate the Uzbek artist and film-maker’s confidence in letting images tell the story, in her first solo exhibition at a UK institution
Persia Reframed: Iranian Visions of Modern and Contemporary Art by Fereshteh Daftari – book review

This is a valuable guide to the history of the reception of modern and contemporary Iranian art in the west, offering a broad outlook on cultural interactions between Iran and major American cultural institutions in the past three decades
Staging Jackson Pollock

With glimmers of a cloak-and-danger cold war thriller, this look at the US artist’s 1958 UK debut considers the gallery design, remarkable for its time, and the murky matter of Pollock’s secret CIA support
Deimantas Narkevičius: 20 July 2015

In the Lithuanian artist’s latest exhibition, contrasting public reaction to the dismantling of communist public sculptures in his homeland are examined in two video works
Yevgeniy Fiks: ‘Any utopia is queer by nature, because it takes you from the present and directs you to a strange time and place’

Artist and curator Yevgeniy Fiks talks about his work with curator Olga Kopenkina for the exhibition Future Queer Perfect, which looks at the utopian aspirations of Soviet experience and its connection to artistic and cultural concerns