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Ruo-Hsin Wu: Floating in the Dark
Ruo-Hsin Wu paints faceless figures suspended in pitch-black voids. Taiwan-based, technically luminous, emotionally weightless.
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Anne-Joelle Tan: Humiliation as Image Logic
Artist in Focus: Anne-Joelle Tan stages friction between shame and desire, collapsing poor images, surveillance and exposure into unstable painting.
Martha Kicsiny: Light, Power, and the Material Weight of the Cloud
Martha Kicsiny works with light, lithophanes and historical media to expose the material pressure behind digital systems and technofeudal control.
Jeehye Song: Suspended Between Staying and Fading
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Michael Beutler at Z33 - Curated by Tim Roerig
Michael Beutler at Z33, Hasselt. Paper, pressure and collective labor turn architecture into a provisional, breathing structure. Curated by Tim Roerig
Boglárka Dankó: Heresy in the Small Hours.
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Tom Król on The Visible Trace of the Invisible Map
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Kumkum Fernando’s 27th Century Cabinet: When Sculpture Becomes Furniture
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