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“Contour Fatigue” at EMALIN, London

To be contained is to be formed in relation to an edge: a threshold that marks what is held in and what is kept out. But containment rarely holds—it fatigues, often slowly; not always through spectacle, but through accumulation. Contour Fatigue brings together nine artists whose work turns toward these sites where containment falters. Through
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Through Fairy Lights and Butterflies, Chiharu Shiota Tethers Presence and Absence

Through Fairy Lights and Butterflies, Chiharu Shiota Tethers Presence and Absence“Absence does not signify disappearance but rather an integration into a vaster universe,” Shiota says.

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María Magdalena Campos-Pons “I Am Soil. My Tears Are Water” at Efie Gallery, Dubai

For more than forty years, María Magdalena Campos-Pons’ deeply personal and interdisciplinary practice has explored nature, spirituality, and the interconnectedness across cultures and geographies. An exhibition of her new work, “I Am Soil. My Tears Are Water”, curated by Faridah Folawiyo (April 14– May 25, 2025) inaugurates Efie Gallery’s new 4,400 sq. ft. space in
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Isabella Costabile “It appears to be solid” at Édouard Montassut, Paris

The sculptures in It appears to be solid are assembled from objects as ordinary as the Earth is round. Some objects are explicitly mundane, like a shower head, others less so, like the unnameable rims, funnels and welded bits of metal. We know we’ve seen these objects before although we cannot exactly remember where, just
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Two Israeli Embassy Staffers Killed by Gunman at Capital Jewish Museum in Washington D.C.

Police have identified the suspect as Elias Rodriguez, 30, of Chicago. He was spotted “pacing back and forth outside of the museum.”