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In this issue of Artforum:
Artists’ Projects: For this election issue, Artforum asked nine artists—Judith Bernstein, Jennifer Bolande, Sue Coe (with introduction by Lauren O’Neill-Butler), Renée Green, Tomashi Jackson (with introduction by Amarie Gipson), Tala Madani, Kenny Scharf, Taryn Simon, and Adam Pendleton (whose work is on the cover)—to contribute projects reflecting on a moment that requires us to think the unthinkable.
“Galvanized by the heartbreak of generational trauma and decades of prolonged crisis, Jackson sees her work as a mode of healing, a means to salvage the ruptured records of the past in order to better understand our present.”
—Amarie Gipson
Critical Care: Colby Chamberlain on the art of Park McArthur
“Sometimes the best deconstruction is a sledgehammer to the curb.”
—Colby Chamberlain
Pandemic Flowers: Benjamin H. D. Buchloh on the art of Luciano Perna
“Staged artificially against a black background, Perna’s images already exude a whiff of the pompes funèbres, as though they knew all too well that this might be their only public appearance before the extinction, if not of the plant itself, then at least of the spectatorial patience to spend even one more moment on melancholic contemplation. Yet dialectically, the chromatic intensity of Perna’s still lifes, their technological luminosity as much as their slippery mobility from site to site, might easily antiquate anybody’s desire to possess a printed picture.”
—Benjamin H. D. Buchloh
“The QAnon narrative collages American conspiracy literature’s greatest hits of the past 70-odd years into a contemporary mythic LARP of mistrust with a runaway cult following and a demonstrable trail of violence.”
And: Laura McLean-Ferris on Ken Okiishi’s Vital Behaviors, 2019; Amy Taubin on Garrett Bradley’s Time, 2020, and America, 2019; Du Keke on the Yokohama Triennale 2020; and more than 35 exhibition reviews from around the globe.
Plus: Erika Balsom on Tsai Ming-liang’s Days, Emmanuel Iduma on the Kamoinge Workshop, Christina Catherine Martinez on “Sisi in Private,” Alexandro Segade’s Fall of the Death Cult, Michael Lobel on art and the United States Postal Service, Paige K. Bradley on QAnon, Lauren O’Neill-Butler on the Feminist Art Coalition, and Akeem Smith shares his Top Ten.
