Flash Art #346: Spring 2024

In this issue we delve into the theme of self-contamination, exploring whether it is a force that extinguishes or revitalizes us. The artists featured embrace notions of self-contamination within their respective practices, resulting in outcomes that are proactive, chaotic, orderly, and provocative. Throughout the issue, we consider the perpetual process of accessing and organizing images to democratize their accessibility, a deliberate form of self-contamination that has become a daily function of our minds.

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Duval Timothy photographed by Liz Johnson Artur in his London studio, January 2024, wearing Wales Bonner. Courtesy of the artist and Flash Art ◯
Rebecca Ackroyd photographed by Hyesoo Chung in her Berlin studio, January 2024, wearing Sunnei. Courtesy of the artist and Flash Art ◯

FEATURES → ◯ Letter from the Editor ◯ Cover Story World Weaver. Klára Hosnedlová by Ella Plevin ◯ Cover Story Rusted Deja Blue. Duval Timothy in Conversation with Grace Wales Bonner ◯ Cover Story Re-Enactment, Acting, Action. Diane Severin Nguyen by Olivia Kan-Sperling ◯ Cover Story All the Images will Disappear. Rebecca Ackroyd in Conversation with Kyla McDonald ◯ Cover Story The Year of Magical Discipline. Dozie Kanu in Conversation with Precious Okoyomon ◯ Focus On London Thoughts of Elsewhere by Amy Jones; From Wind to Signs. Zeinab Saleh in Conversation with Gea Politi ◯ Ugly Feelings. Gina Fischli by Margaret Kross ◯ Speak Louder. Barbara Kruger by Clem MacLeod ◯ Critic Dispatch Baroque as Being by Rose Higham-Stainton ◯ The Curist Two Queens, Leicester. Gino Attwood in Conversation with Caroline Elbaor ◯ Cutting Up the World. Gray Wielebinski in Conversation with Philomena Epps ◯ Copies of Copies, Which I Then Copy Again. Motoko Ishibashi in Conversation with Cassidy George ◯ Unpack / Reveal / Unleash Real Enigma. Stella Zhong by Alex Bennett ◯ They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? Sophie Jung by Estelle Hoy ◯ TIME MACHINE APERTO ‘93 by Helena Kontova, Jeffrey Deitch, and Francesco Bonami ◯ Letter from the City I want it to be, and I want it not to be by Lauren Elkin

REVIEWS → ◯ “Going Dark: The Contemporary Figure at the Edge of Visibility” Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York by Chiara Mannarino ◯ Paul Pfeiffer “Prologue to the Story of the Birth of Freedom” MOCA – Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles by Sampson Ohringer ◯ Jasmine Gregory “Si je ne peux pas l’avoir, toi non plus” CAPC – Musée d’art Contemporain de Bordeaux by Sarah Moroz ◯ Dora Budor “Again” Nottingham Contemporary by Frank Wasser ◯ Biennale de l’Image en Mouvement CAC – Centre d’Art Contemporain, Genève by Marilena Borriello ◯ Meredith Monk “Calling” Haus der Kunst, Munich and Oude Kerk, Amsterdam by Philipp Hindahl ◯ “Our Ecology: Toward a Planetary Living” Mori Art Museum, Tokyo by Maki Nishida