(15:05 minutes) Selected by Crawford Art Gallery, Cork Ailbhe Ní Bhriain’s film draws us into the vertiginous depths of a quarryinterior. The camera traces the deep-time of geological sequences, the scarsleft by machinery on the rock surfaces, and the sprayed industrial notationsthat codify the commodification and disappearance of landscape. In thesedisparate forms of inscription the […]

Selected by Fundación Proa, Buenos Aires Life can feel like the accumulation of words in a book as we record thoughts and experiences. What if we could reverse, pause or accelerate these in the same way that a book’s pages can be flipped back and forth? “Janus was a two-faced god in Roman mythology: one […]

(12:57 minutes) Selected by KWM artcenter, Beijing ‘jiéjiè’ is a buddhist word describing the protective ‘zone’ created througha collective consciousness among a group of people. Yu Guo takes thisnotion as a perspective through which to look at how we communicatewithin heavily mediated urban environments. For Yu Guo in today’s urbanlife, every single visual action of […]

(6 minutes) Selected by Friends of Iziko South African National Gallery Lerato Shadi’s work challenges common assumptions to critique Westernnotions of history and make visible that which is invisible or overlooked.In particular, she critiques the assumption that Western history is worldhistory. In the video, the artist’s hand makes enigmatic gestures and shesings a folk verse […]

(10:02 minutes) Selected by Project 88, Mumbai, India Passwords for Time Travel consists of a suite of text and image videos thatpropose a set of terms that anticipate and rehearse conversations with thenear and distant future. Combining the enigma of a spell with the precisionof a dictionary entry, these unexpected lexical combinations are presentedalong with […]

(23:07 minutes) Selected by Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm Lisa Tan thinks of the images of Mars as a death mask of Earth capturedmillions of years in the future yet witnessed in the present. Compelled byphotographs from NASA’s expeditions depicting Mars’ topography, Tansenses how the planet’s landscapes could be our own. Their familiaritytransports her to the desert […]

(11:36 minutes) Selected by Whitechapel Gallery, London The imagery in Storr’s film unfolds like a language without words.Junkanoo is a carnival of the Bahamas; vivid shots of festival fringed papercostumes are accompanied by sighs and clicks, sounds made on the bodyto the beats of Bahmian Rake ‘n’ Scrape. The work is part of British-Bahamianartist Rhea […]

(9:14 minutes) Selected by Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw Wanda Wanton is an aspiring artist from Wieliczka, working as ateacher of Polish language. After work, Wanda devotes herself to a peculiarpassions: she just loves to destroy things, and calls her acts ofvandalism “acts of art” or simply “sculptures”. By bringing her to life, theartist expresses […]

(20:32 minutes) Selected by Ballroom Marfa, Texas Miguel Fernández de Castro’s video is a dynamic visual and aural collagethat traces the overlapping territories, languages, and conflicts that markthe border between Mexico and the U.S. within the sovereign TohonoO’odham Nation. The artist weaves together excerpts from the 1970 movie‘Geronimo Jones’ with drone and surveillance-like imagery of […]