Artforum Vol64 No03 November 2025 Ayoung Kim

Contents

EDITOR’S LETTER
Material Matters
By Tina Rivers Ryan
Robert Wilson and Philip Glass, Einstein on the Beach, 1976. Performance view, Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York, 1984. Robert Wilson in the section “Torch Dance.”
PASSAGES
Robert Wilson (1941–2025)
By Laurie Anderson
Speech Act by Geeta Kapur
BOOKS
Recursive Narratives
On Geeta Kapur’s Speech Acts
By Rattanamol Singh Johal
Hylozoic/Desires (Himali Singh Soin and David Soin Tappeser) and Rasuljon Mirzaahmedov, Longing, 2024–25, ikat tapestry. Installation view, Bukhara, Uzbekistan, 2025. Photo: Felix Odell.
ON SITE
Spinning Yarns
On the 2025 Bukhara Biennial and soft power in Uzbekistan
By Rachel Wetzler
Mitchell F. Chan, Ladyboss, 2025, video game. From “Zantar and Other Stories,” 2025.
TECHNOLOGY
Flipping Coins
On Mitchell F. Chan’s “Zantar” games
By Kevin Buist
Cesária Évora, São Vicente, Cape Verde, August 1, 2003. Photo: Patrick Bruchet/Paris Match via Getty Images.
TOP TEN
Iké Udé
By Iké Udé

X Zhu-Nowell
THE CHECKLIST
X Zhu-Nowell
By The Editors
Rosemarie Trockel’s studio, Potsdam, Germany, September 28, 2025. Photo: Pablo Larios.
STUDIO VISIT
Rosemarie Trockel
By Rosemarie Trockel
Tom Lloyd and apprentices, including his son Omar at work on Veleuro, 1968, in the artist’s studio, Queens, NY, ca. 1968.
Features
Electronic Refractions
On Tom Lloyd and the Studio Museum in Harlem
By Thelma Golden, Connie H. Choi, Tina Rivers Ryan
Ketuta Alexi-Meskhishvili, Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror (detail), 2020, ink-jet print, 18 7⁄8 × 23 3⁄4".
Features
Fugitive Processes: The Materiality of Photography
By The Editors
Joseph Nicéphore Niépce, Point de vue du Gras (View from the Window at Le Gras), ca. 1826, heliograph on pewter, 6 5⁄8 × 8".
Features
The Future of Photography: A Roundtable
By Ketuta Alexi-Meskhishvili, Thomas Demand, Florian Ebner, Roxana Marcoci, Christian Scheidemann, Jeff Wall, Pablo Larios
Thomas Demand
PORTFOLIO
Thomas Demand
By Thomas Demand
Dionne Lee, Fault Condition 5, 2023, collage of gelatin silver prints, 16 × 20". From the series “Fault Condition,” 2023–.
PORTFOLIO
Dionne Lee
By Dionne Lee
Mame-Diarra Niang, Morphologie du rêve #1 (Morphology of the Dream #1), 2021, ink-jet print, dimensions variable.
PORTFOLIO
Mame-Diarra Niang
By Mame-Diarra Niang
Kunié Sugiura, Maxilla, 2020, ink-jet print and acrylic on canvas, 36 × 72".
PORTFOLIO
Kunié Sugiura
By Kunié Sugiura
Akosua Viktoria Adu-Sanyah, slave attics – first small iteration, folding into itself, 2025, C-print, 8 1⁄2 × 45 3⁄8".
PORTFOLIO
Akosua Viktoria Adu-Sanyah
By Akosua Viktoria Adu-Sanyah
Casey Reas, Amplified Technical Image #1, 2024, dye sublimation on aluminum, 24 × 24". From the series “Amplified Technical Images,” 2024–.
PORTFOLIO
Casey Reas
By Casey Reas
Julia Margaret Cameron, Sappho, 1865, albumen silver print from glass negative, 13 3⁄4 × 10 3⁄4".
Features
Changing Focus
On the history and future of photography and time-based media conservation at The Met
By Nora W. Kennedy, Jonathan Farbowitz, Katherine Sanderson
Franz Wilhelm Seiwert, Wandbild für einen Fotografen (Mural for a Photographer), 1925, oil on canvas, 43 1⁄8 × 60 7⁄8".
close-up
Franz Wilhelm Seiwert’s Wandbild Für Einen Fotografen (Mural For A Photographer), 1925
By Noam M. Elcott
Diagram of CAVE audio visual experience automatic virtual environment, 1992.
Features
Use Your Illusion
On the collective possibilities of immersive media
By Caroline A. Jones
Amie Siegel, Vues/Views, 2024, still from the 4K video component (color, sound, 45 minutes) of a mixed-media installation additionally comprising found hand-blocked wallpaper and paint on paper.
Features
Social Stratigraphy
On the art of Amie Siegel 
By Tom McDonough
View of “Ayoung Kim: Many Worlds Over,” 2025, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin. Photos: Jacopo LaForgia.
spotlight
Ayoung Kim
By Andy St. Louis
Karimah Ashadu, Plateau, 2021–22, HD video, color, sound, 30 minutes.
spotlight
Karimah Ashadu
By Gazelle Mba
Emily’s Sassy Lime, Olympia, WA, ca. 1995.
Costa Mesa, CA
2025 California Biennial
Orange County Museum of Art
By Andrea Gyorody
Sarah Meyohas, Cloud of Petals, 2017, 16 mm transferred to 4K video, color, sound, 31 minutes 22 seconds.
Toledo
“Infinite Images: The Art of Algorithms”
Toledo Museum of Art
By Paula Burleigh
View of “Sam Moyer: Woman with Holes,” 2025. Background: Sam Moyer, Screen for Mure-cho, 2025. Foreground: Isamu Noguchi, Woman With Holes II, 1969. Photo: Dan Bradica Studio.
New York
Sam Moyer
Hill Art Foundation
By Jonathan Odden
Alix Cléo Roubaud
Galerie Buchholz | New York
By Jenny Wu
Liz Magor
Andrew Kreps | 394 Broadway
By Mika Lee
Erin Wright
Anat Ebgi
By David Colman
Jeffrey Wasserman
Rosenberg & Co.
By Donald Kuspit
Preslav Kostov
Tara Downs
By Max Lakin
Laura Lamiel
OSMOS
By Harmon Siegel
Manoela Medeiros
Palo Gallery
By Barry Schwabsky
“Oculus”
LOMEX
By Theo Belci
View of “Iman Issa: A Game, or So You May Think,” 2025. Photo: Juan Molina Hernández.
Chicago
Iman Issa
Art Institute of Chicago
By Robyn Schiff
“City in a Garden: Queer Art and Activism in Chicago”
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (MCA Chicago)
By Jeremy Lybarger
Yvette Mayorga
Monique Meloche
By Julian Stern
Sherrie Levine, President Profile, 1979, slide projection. Installation view. Photo: Daniel Pérez.
Aspen, CO
“Sherrie Levine: 1977–1988”
Aspen Art Museum
By Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer
Lee ShinJa, Spirit of Mountain, 1999, wool, synthetic thread, 75 1⁄2 × 30".
Berkeley, CA
Lee ShinJa
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA)
By Jessica Simmons-Reid
View of “Kevin Beasley: What delineates the edge,” 2025. Photo: Evan Bedford.
Los Angeles
Kevin Beasley
Regen Projects
By Nahui Garcia
Fidencio Fifield-Perez 
Commonwealth and Council
By Tara Anne Dalbow
Benjamin Echeverria
Michael Benevento
By Marie Heilich
Alison Yip, Untitled II, 2025, charcoal, graphite, earth magnets, 79 × 59".
Toronto
Alison Yip
Franz Kaka
By Dan Adler
Akiko Kinugawa, 22to3, 2025, oil on canvas, 46 × 35 7⁄8".
São Paulo
Akiko Kinugawa
Mendes Wood DM | São Paulo
By Juan José Santos
Jonathan Sölanke Gathaara Fraser, Calculations for an Enclosed Space, 2024, tempera, charcoal, soft pastel, oil pastel, spray paint, and india ink on cotton canvas, 55 1⁄8 × 34 5⁄8".
Nairobi, Kenya
Jonathan Sölanke Gathaara Fraser
Circle Art Gallery
By E. N. Mirembe
Oupa Sibeko, Dog Hotel, 2025, pastel and oil stick on canvas, 69 1⁄4 × 54".
Cape Town
Oupa Sibeko
Lemkus Gallery
By Nkgopoleng Moloi
Yan Pei-Ming, Wanted in London, 2025, oil on canvas, 59 × 86 5⁄8".
London
Yan Pei-Ming
Massimo de Carlo
By Elisa Schaar
View of “Donald Locke: Resistant Forms,” 2025. Photo: Rob Harris.
Bristol, England
Donald Locke
Spike Island
By Sabo Kpade
Mohammed Sami, Royal Mail, 2024, acrylic on linen, 21 7⁄8 × 25 5⁄8".
Dublin
Mohammed Sami
The Douglas Hyde Gallery of Contemporary Art
By Declan Long
View of “Norbert Prangenberg,” 2025. Floor: Figur, 1996. Wall, from left: Staub (Dust), 2006; Untitled, 1991–92; Untitled, 2004.
Paris
Norbert Prangenberg
Galerie Karsten Greve | Paris
By Barry Schwabsky
James Brown, The Snake Pit and the Black Lake I, 2019, collage, watercolor, and ballpoint on paper 15 1⁄2 × 22 1⁄4".
Rome
James Brown
Galleria Alessandra Bonomo
Galleria Valentina Bonomo
By Ida Panicelli
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Tolia Astakhishvili and Dylan Peirce, I love seeing myself through the eyes of others, 2025, plastic, acrylic paint, photos, found objects, material storage, light, 20' 1 3⁄4" × 14' 1 1⁄4" × 9' 6 1⁄8".
Venice
Tolia Astakhishvili
Nicoletta Fiorucci Foundation
By Alberto Villa
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View of “Marlene Dumas: Cycladic Blues,” 2025. Foreground: Unknown, female figurine, 2700–2400/2300 BCE. Background: Marlene Dumas, Cycladic Blues, 2020. Photo: Paris Tavitian.
Athens
Marlene Dumas
Museum of Cycladic Art
By Jurriaan Benschop
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Franz West, Maulschelle (Slap in the Face), 1980, lacquer and dispersion on gauze, wire, wood, and can lid, 3 7⁄8 × 30 3⁄8 × 4 3⁄4".
Zurich
Franz West
Galerie Eva Presenhuber
By Paul Laster
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