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WeTransfer and Water Street Projects present a retrospective exhibition by Bronx-born photographer Renell Medrano. Staged at WSA through November 2, 2024, the exhibition traces through Medrano’s past to make room for the new, marking her first hometown presentation in over five years. Inspired by her Dominican roots, the artist captures rebirth and return in equal measure, revealed through an intimate, lens-based language.LAMBÓN surveys a wide range of editorial projects and collaborations mounted alongside intimate personal projects shot from trips to Egypt, Jamaica and the Dominican Republic. Her work brings a refreshing flair to entertainment and fashion, documenting the likes of Kendrick Lamar and Solange with tender authenticity and drama.The show takes its title from a word in Domini...

At Galerie Krinzinger, Anthony Olubunmi Akinbola conjures an animal farm. While a herd of fifteen wood-carved goats roams around the gallery, one goat bears the face of Akinbola, caught in a process of objectification. Raised between the US and Nigeria, the artist reflects on the complexities of cultural exports in his latest exhibition.Western Beef takes its title from a low-cost supermarket chain in New York City, heralded for its affordable meat supply. Akinbola finds interest in the implicit and explicit transformation of African cultural products by the time they touch down in the West. As a symbol of both food and fortune, he asks: “Is a goat better embodied by a wooden effigy or its skin rotating by conveyor?”Through a series of multi-textural installations, the exhibition brings ev...

Sitting in his Paris garden, Jean-Michel Othoniel observes nature’s course. “There is always a moment of contemplation at the beginning,” he tells Hypeart, describing a flower's bloom and the ways in which a caterpillar undergoes metamorphosis. Othoniel, who was born in Saint-Étienne and is now based in the French capital, has for over 30 years created poetic glass sculptures that draw from nature, personal memory and transformation. It was natural, of course, for him to gravitate to using glass, whose very properties arise from a metamorphosis of melting sand and shaping that blown liquid into uncanny forms — that for the artist, has manifested into towering necklace-shaped sculptures, cascading entrances to the Paris metro, as well as a fountain in the Gardens of Versailles. Hypeart met ...

In 1992, Jeffrey Deitch lifted the veil on Post Human, his monumental group show. The exhibition explored the role of technology in everyday life, foregrounding the tech-riddled existentialism that would continue to undergird our society today. Blurring binaries to make anew, the exhibition looked for answers in the prim and plastic.More than 30 years later, Post Human returns to Jeffrey Deitch Los Angeles in an iconic renaissance. The exhibition features the work of 36 artists including Hajime Sorayama, Kiki Smith, Damien Hirst, Pippa Garner, Jordan Wolfson, Cindy Sherman, Urs Fischer and more. Together, key figures from the show’s original run join forces with fresh faces in contemporary art to embark on new frontiers of bodily transformation, challenging the value of Realism in the age ...

Last weekend, American artist Nathaniel Mary Quinn played curator-in-residence at the Metrograph theater in downtown Manhattan. In collaboration with Gagosian, the artist presented a selection of his favorite films, bringing A Raisin in the Sun (1961), Hustle & Flow (2005) and Lust for Life (1956) back to the silver screen.The three films were brought together by their exploration of a better life. “Driven by a profound platform of faith, they’re trying to get out of the mud and find a way to walk into the light,” the artist tells HypeArt. “You have to be slightly crazy to believe in the things that, by all accounts, seem impossible.” Whether it be through Walter’s business ventures in A Raisin in the Sun, DJay’s pursuit of music in Hustle & Flow or Van Gogh’s unwavering love for p...

Hauser & Wirth has announced the global representation of American Mississippi Choctaw-Cherokee artist Jeffrey Gibson. Born in Colorado and currently based in Upstate New York, Gibson was recently appointed as the first Indigenous artist to represent the U.S. pavilion at the ongoing Venice Biennale, transforming the space into a vibrant theatre of sculptures, tapestries and film installations rooted in his "complicated relationship" with the country of his birth, but created to parallel and connect with the struggles of native populations around the world. Gibson's first showcase with his new gallery will take place at the upcoming Art Basel in Paris along with a solo exhibition at Hauser's French outpost in October 2025. "Jeffrey occupies a unique position in the sweep of contemporary...

For this year’s Taoyuan Land Art Festival, Manfred Eccli and Pedro Cavaco Leitão’s Moradavaga teamed up with Blue Dragon Art Company to present “Squid Squad: Family Day.” Following their previous squid installations, the Italian and Portuguese architecture duo take to Taiwan to reflect on the rich history and culture of the city's Guishan district. They are joined by a band of local and international artists, coming together for an electric display of outdoor artworks.Found along the rim of Zhiqing Lake, the interactive installation features three life-size colorful squids — small, medium and large — symbolizing the typical Taiwanese nuclear family. With tentacles outstretched and interwoven in trees, the family of creatures emerge from the grass. While the artwork serves as an acoustic pl...