The collapse of Spain’s property-led economy resulted in thousands of empty and unfinished homes. Often described as ‘ghost towns’, these sites reveal the fraught relationship between capital and the built environment, yet activist campaigns such as PAH show they’re also battlegrounds of […]
Marcel Dinahet’s art is quiet and ambiguous, resisting any straightforward narrative logic. At first glance, his videoworks might seem a bit presumptuous – at Domobaal’s latest exhibition, we’re offered three looped videos and little by […]
In the wake of the 2008 economic crisis, empty and unfinished properties emerged across the globe, following years of frenzied construction during the “boom years”. For the month of March in 2013, I curated the Future State […]
It’s interesting that a young artist living in London chooses to predominantly paint landscapes. In David Shackleton’s sparse pastoral scenes, we never see the city. There’s no background buzz of technology, industry or commerce. There […]
Through stories of alienation, murder and marriage breakdown, Broken Harbour and Gone Girl explore the devastating impacts of economic austerity and unemployment – but what can we learn from these popular works of crime fiction? What do […]
Mark Francis is best known for his paintings of microbiology – from depictions of magnified cells to glossy images of spores, sperms and DNA. Through amplified scale and deliberate scientific inaccuracy, these earlier works toyed with […]
