Flash Art #351 – SUMMER 2025 – GROTESQUE FUNCTIONALISM
COVERS → ◯ Karla Kaplun photographed by Luis Corzo in Mexico City, May 2025, wearing Stone Island and Kuboraum. Courtesy of the artist and Flash Art. ◯ Daiga Grantina photographed by Benedict Brink in her studio in Souppes-sur-Loing, May 2025, wearing Paloma Wool. Courtesy of the artist and Flash Art. ◯ Alexandra Metcalf photographed by Oscar Foster-Kane at The Perimeter, London, May 2025, wearing Steve O Smith. Courtesy of the artist and Flash Art.
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◯ Letter from the Editor ◯ Cover Story The Device of Eternal Motion. Karla Kaplun in Conversation with Caroline Elbaor photographed by Luis Corzo. ◯ Cover Story Fog Work. Daiga Grantina in Conversation with Amy Jones photographed by Benedict Brink. ◯ Cover Story Compose Yourself. Alexandra Metcalf by Kyla McDonald photographed by Oscar Foster-Kane ◯ Visual Essay The Familiar Strange by Phung-Tien Phan. Intro by Eli Bittencourt ◯ Focus On ZURICH: Peripheral Presence by Tibor Bielicky and Ellena Ehrl ◯ Never Let Go. Sidsel Meneiche Hansen by Bianca Stoppani ◯ UNPACK/ REVEAL/UNLEASH The Conditions that Shape. Sophie Friedman-Pappas by Margaret Kross ◯ Studio Scene In Medias Res. Sofia Defino Leiby by Gabriela Acha photographed by Avventuroso ◯ Membrane As Leger. Lyric Shen by Leo Cocar ◯ The Curist Institut Funder Bakke, Silkeborg Andreas Führer in Conversation with Fafaya Mogensen ◯ Critic Dispatch Performing the Grotesque by P. Eldridge ◯ ARCHIVE Cecily Brown; Kiki Smith; Pipilotti Rist ◯ Mean Time Between Fallure. Racheal Crowther in Conversation with Ben Broome ◯ New World Order. Agnieszka Polska in Conversation with Tosia Leniarska ◯ Loop: Substance and Circumstance. Olga Balema by Eleanor Ivory Weber
REVIEWS → ◯ “The Gatherers” MoMA PS1, New York, by Qingyuan Deng ◯ “RUNNING UP THE HILLS” Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, by Gracie Hadland ◯ Nora Turato “pool7” ICA – Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, by Sonja Teszler ◯ Klára Hosnedlová “embrace” Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, by Martin Herbert ◯ “Corps at âmes” Bourse de Commerce, Paris, by Hugo Bausch Belbachir ◯ “STEADYSTATE” Zero…, Milan, by Michela Ceruti ◯ “Painting After Painting” S.M.A.K., Ghent, by Frank Wasser