“Can I ask you for one favour? I came all the way from New York to come play for you. I would love to see the ladies in the front, please. That’s what DJ Haram said, deadpan into the mic, right after cutting the music mid-set. No fade. No transition. It was June 2024, and […]
Michelle Alozie knows how to hold multiple positions at once, literally and figuratively. A forward at her club, Houston Dash, a defender for Nigeria’s Super Falcons, and a trained medical professional working part-time as a cancer research technician in Texas in between, Alozie is a multi-hyphenate with a rigorous and intuitive playbook. In a world […]
In the hushed geometries of Paris’s Palais de Tokyo, amid the heavy silences of history and the noise of global turmoil, Chalisée Naamani’s new exhibition Octogone opens like a quiet invocation. The Franco-Iranian artist, whose work consistently straddles the personal and the political, has composed a spatial and symbolic reverie—at once installation, procession, and arena—where […]
