Carissa Rodriguez’s exhibition The Maid is currently on view at the MIT List Visual Arts Center. The exhibition includes several video works and photographs. The Maid examines the complex interconnections inherent to power dynamics in relation to labor. This is…
The rippling surface of water in a small steel structure catches and reflects fragments of light and color, casting it onto the surrounding walls and ceiling. These reflections are the result of three video monitors installed in a row several…
The phrases “never talk to strangers” and “stranger danger” are so ingrained within our culture that they’ve become part of our lexicon. Amalia Pica knows this all too well, having lived in Argentina at a time when the country was…
João Ribas maintains that Amalia Pica’s work should be listened to. Other than the clatter of a slide-tray as it works its way around a carousel, this means listening to silence, more accurately, to the white noise of an exhibition…
By James Nadeau I had the opportunity to sit down with Nicole Cherubini and Taylor Davis as they installed their show Davis/Cherubini, In Contentionat the List Visual Arts Center at MIT. The work is truly a collaboration between the two, which…
Belgian artist David Claerbout’s first museum survey exhibitition in the US will open this Friday at MIT’s List Visual Arts Center. In an article I wrote about his work in 2004, I summarized: “In his work, David Claerbout moves between…