In the April 2025 issue of ArtReview, Japanese-Sāmoan artist Yuki Kihara brings to Britain her ongoing Paradise Camp project, part of a larger practice that explores the diversity of sex and gender traits while dismantling the historical Western gaze cast on the bodies and sexuality of Indigenous peoples in the South Pacific – expect appearances by Charles Darwin. Gabrielle Goliath approaches historical traumas and their expression in contemporary violence through photography, video installations and performances that aim to create space for what the artist refers to as the lifework of mourning. Also: if the eternally popular genre of body horror serves as a barometer for society’s unspoken fears and anxieties, what is its current revival in film and art about? Plus: opinion pieces on food, fashionability, artworld legitimacy and why David Salle trained AI on a diet of his own paintings; a look at what ‘disrupt’ has come to mean in art contexts; and comprehensive exhibition and book reviews.
Art Observed
The Interview - Ariella Aïsha Azoulay by Yuwen Jiang
Dead and Alive by Martin Herbert
Just Eat It by Chris Fite-Wassilak
Warsaw’s New Museum by Phoebe Blatton
Vibe Shift by J. J. Charlesworth
The I in AI by David Salle
Art Featured
Yuki Kihara by Fi Churchman
Like Us, But Not by Tom Seymour
Gabrielle Goliath by Stephanie Bailey
Ideals of the East by Okakura Tenshin annotated by Yuwen Jiang and Mark Rappolt
Art Reviewed
Exhibitions
Christine Sun Kim, by Maddie Hampton
Screen Memories, by Jenny Wu
Jim Hodges, by Tom Morton
Michael Wilkinson, by Gabriel Levine Brislin
La Genevoise: Carte Blanche à Carole Bove, by Martin Herbert Peter Joseph, by Tom Denman
Christina Ramberg, by Chris Murtha
Wafaa Bilal, by Annette LePique
Racheal Crowther, by Gabriela Acha
How is Death Written in the South?, by Gaby Cepeda
Antonio Obá, by Digby Warde-Aldam
Hannah Black, by Taylor LeMelle
Drain the Öresund, by Alice Godwin
Alice Coltrane, by Nicole Kaack
Jakkai Siributr, by Yuwen Jiang
Barbara Steveni, by J. J. Charlesworth
Bianca Hlywa, by Alexander Leissle
AES+F, by Ophelia Lai
Jay Bernard, by Ella Nixon
Efo Sela, by Kwame Aidoo
Stellenbosch Triennale 2025, by Chaze Matakala
Books
Flower, by Ed Atkins, reviewed by Martin Herbert
Flowers, by Brian Dillon, Takenori Miyamoto and Teppei Takeda, reviewed by Nirmala Devi
After Spaceship Earth: Art, Techno-Utopia, and Other Science Fictions, by Eva Díaz, reviewed by Jonathan T. D. Neil
Vitamin V: Video and the Moving Image in Contemporary Art, edited by Phaidon, reviewed by Mia Stern
Citizen by Descent, by Kritika Arya, reviewed by Pramodha Weerasekera
The World After Gaza: A History, by Pankaj Mishra, reviewed by Mark Rappolt