Wong Hoy Cheong

Re: Looking 2004
Re: Looking marks a new phase in Wong’s work which connects his region’s history with other parts of the world. The video—located in an imagined contemporary Malaysian middle-class living room, a space of a fictive former imperial power—explores the...

Alicia McCarthy

Untitled (Colors) and Untitled (Ghost) 2010
A painting reminiscent of a certain “naive primitivism,” Untitled (Colors) and  Untitled (Ghost) are representative of McCarthy’s work. Upon first encounter, her abstract colorful compositions resemble somewhat formal...

Claudia Joskowicz

Round and Round and Consumed by Fire 2009

Daria Martin

Soft Materials 2004
Soft Materials is a curious, touching but also disturbing sequence of confrontations between two people: a man and a woman, and machines. Shot in the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at the University of Zurich, the humans and the machines mirror...

Cao Fei

RMB City: A Second Life City Planning 04 2007
Since 2007, Cao has radically focused her work on Second Life, an online space that virtually mimics “the real world” and includes everything from the expression of ideas to economic investment. Referring to China’s modernization and its capitalist...

Ciprian Muresan

Untitled (Monks) 2011
Ciprian Mureşan asked a group of protagonists to wear a monk's robe and copy a certain number of artworks and texts from exhibition catalogues. Here it is no longer the Bible that is reproduced but works by Malevich, Mondrian, Beuys, Duchamp. These...

Pablo Pijnappel

Felicitas
In Felicitas, we follow the converging routes of three characters: Felicitas, Michael and Andrew (the artist's father-in-law who also features elsewhere). Felicitas is thedaughter of a German industrialist who immigrated to Rio after the Second...

Pierre Leguillon

Diane Arbus: A printed retrospective, 1960-1971 2008
End of 2008, Pierre Leguillon presented at Kadist Art Foundation the first retrospective of the works of Diane Arbus (1923-1971) organized in France since 1980, bringing together all the images commissioned to the New York photographer by the Anglo-...

Matthew Darbyshire

Untitled: Furniture Island No. 3 2009
In Kan’s four-channel video Island, a series of objects like nail clippers, hairbrush, toothpaste, and house decorations are shot in close-up. These highly polished and aestheticized images, create a poetic visual flow. However, in front of each...

Kristen Morgin

Donald of Doom Tank 2008
Donald of Doom Tank (2008) is a replica of a vintage metal toy with Donald Duck’s image one side and a soldier on the other. During World War II, the Walt Disney Company produced series of cartoon shorts that featured Donald Duck’s nightmare of...

Goldin+Senneby

The Decapitation of Money 2010
In this installation, you are standing at the heart of a bicephalous space reflecting Goldin+Senneby's main research led during their residency in Paris. Here, two historical events from the late 1930's and early 50's are confronted.In one of these...

Julius Koller

Universal Futurological Question Mark (U.F.O) 1978
This work  is one of Koller’s many variations which he began to use from 1970 to describe the ‘cultural situations’ he created. His "Anti-Happenings" turned mundane events into 'cultural' and 'subjective' situations. He sought to create new...

Bjorn Copeland

Sign series, #1, #2, #3 2009
Sign #1, Sign #2, Sign #3 were included in Found Object Assembly, Copeland’s 2009 solo show at Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco. These rather austere collages were created by simply cutting and inverting the text from existing information signs....

Eleanor Antin

100 Boots 1973, 1971
Comprised of fifty-one photographic postcards, Antin’s 100 Boots is an epic visual narrative in which 100 black rubber boots stand in for a fictional “hero” making a “trip” from California to New York City. Over two-and-a-half years, Antin...

Raimond Chaves, Mantilla Gilda

Partituras 2009
Many of Chaves and Gilda’s works use recycled cardboard. For Partituras, they arranged stacks of cardboard into long rectangles on the ground, which are visually analogous to fields of graphite in Chaves’s pencil drawings. While the blocks have a...

Anthony McCall

Landscape for Fire
Landscape for fire is a major work by Anthony McCall. The film recounts a performance where characters in white, light up fires in a very orchestrated choreography of lights in a vast flat landscape. The performance is carefully planned – the fires...

Eleanor Antin

100 Boots 1973, 1971
Comprised of fifty-one photographic postcards, Antin’s 100 Boots is an epic visual narrative in which 100 black rubber boots stand in for a fictional “hero” making a “trip” from California to New York City. Over two-and-a-half years, Antin...

Alain Séchas

Coué 1 2006
Coué 1 is an animated sculpture that hypnotically highlights the self-motivating leitmotiv of the 'Coué Method': “Every day, in every way, I'm getting better and better.”This is the mantra that is repeated by different male and female voices in the...

LaToya Ruby Frazier

Campaign for Braddock Hospital 2011
LaToya Ruby Frazier is an artist and a militant; her photos combine intimate views of her relation with her parents and grandparents with the history of the Afro-American community of Braddock, Pennsylvania, where she grew up and where her family...

Julius Koller

Underground (U.F.O) 1980