What Saint Matthew Raises
Nilda Comas’s sculpture San Mateo de Cangrejos restores the memory of a Puerto Rican community founded by free Black people and those who escaped slavery.
Those Who Drag Their Dead
A critical reading of Juggernaut, an Italian dark fantasy short where armour, landscape, and grief become the unbearable weight of a granted desire.
Ginzburg’s Traces
Carlo Ginzburg taught us to read the world through traces, clues and minor signs. This article reflects on his evidential paradigm as a method shared by forensic examination and art criticism.
Art is not read through oppositions: notes against the shortcuts of the gaze
A method for reading contemporary art beyond visual shortcuts, through Ibrahim Mahama, Burri, Ginzburg and the limits of binary thinking.
What the Sea Really Costs.
From Hans Haacke to coastal cities, an analysis of real estate and the cost of living reshaping who can still afford to live by the sea.
The marble that is missing
A critical essay on merit and memory, using ancient athletic sculpture to examine how contemporary systems consume achievement without transforming it into lasting civic recognition.
The more it is discussed, the less it exists
A critical reflection on Greenland as a geopolitical Non-Site. The article examines the return of the border as a principle, from the Roman limes to contemporary governance, showing how sovereignty, when declared, turns places into administrable functions and erodes their existence as lived territories.
Jona: Braille as a perceptual device in the work of Aldo Gallina
An in depth analysis of Jona’s work through the use of Braille as a tactile and linguistic device. The article explores touch as a mode of knowledge, perceptual slowness, and the epistemological shift from vision to reading within contemporary art.
AI Scams, Trust, and the Deception of Signals
For centuries, the voice functioned as a primary device of recognition and trust. Once it becomes replicable, an invisible social infrastructure begins to erode.