(GLASS) CLOSET – THE PERFORMANCE BY MATTEO DE CAMINADA
[ GLASS ] CLOSET THE PERFORMANCE (+) The choreography of not being noticed is a performance by Italian artist Matteo De Caminada, first presented at Fondazione Antonio Dalle Nogare in collaboration with Transart Festival of Contemporary Cultures in 2026. The work begins as a personal account of shame, self-suppression and the necessity of leaving in […]
BURGEONING
“Burgeoning” is a dynamic descriptor frequently used in the field of agricultural economics, referring to the rapid surge in crop yields or livestock herds, akin to bamboo shoots after rain. It also points to two distinct models of proliferation in cultural and natural domains—the parasitic propagation of memes and the differential replication of biological arthropods. […]
The harvest of sorrow
A carefully arranged, scenographic space evokes feelings of nostalgia. It interrupts linear time, connecting the recent past with previous years, even decades. Emo* is back? Maybe it has never left? It only hid, transformed, and began to function under different names, attaching itself to successive aesthetic trends, changing its forms (not to be confused with […]
The Solemnity of the Repulsive
The exhibition brings together artists Daria Maiier and Sofiia Yesakova, creating a space where distinct aesthetic languages encounter shared sensibilities and experiences. Both currently based in Germany, Dariia and Sofiia studied in Mykola Storozhenko’s studio at the National Academy of Visual Arts and Architecture in Kyiv, which focused on monumental art, religious postmodernism, and an […]
Kawan! Kawan!
For our second annual summer show, Shoes Off is pleased to present Kawan! Kawan! a group exhibition featuring artists Zarifah Ahmad Zamri, Yadanar Aung, Ainara Basco, Sona Kharel, Audrey Lukban, Monochaotic, Arty Nicharee, Huda Osni, Aarti Pillai, Fajrina Razak, Liszu Tan and Julian Udine. Through a multidisciplinary dialogue of sculpture, moving image, painting, jewellery and […]
Seated Ducks
Five Churches in a Strip Mall on Pasadena Avenue is pleased to present ‘Seated Ducks’, an exhibition of oil pastel drawings and sculptures by Luke Rogers. Rogers’s practice investigates sites of energetic transfer. He has depicted gas flames, aqueducts, metal-bending machinery, glimpses into open refrigerators – the metabolics of domestic and industrial infrastructure. His objects […]
Gene’s Presents “Truckload of Art” at Forms
Once upon a time,sometime ago –back on the east coast,in New York City, to be exact –a bunch of artists and paintersand sculptors and musiciansand poets and writersand dancers and architectsall started feeling real superiorto their ego counterpartsout on the West Coast,so they all got togetherand decided they would showthose snotty surfer upstartsa thing or […]
Host and distill
Venice is a city suspended between water and air. Its boundaries are constantly reshaped by the tides. Salt permeates brick and stone; mist rises from the lagoon at dawn and slowly dissolves at dusk. Here, matter is never static. It exists in a continuous state of exchange, sedimentation, evaporation, and transformation. Host and Distill begins […]
Parasympathies
Parasympathies is a fragmented body of work approaching sympathy’s flip side: not a shared feeling, but a structural condition of proximity, (mis)alignment, and (in)dependence. Through paired “standard” materials, split forms, cinematic frames, and mirrored language, the works stage repetition without resolution, placing constructive and destructive gestures in parallel. A pair closes in on itself as […]
more-than-cities
The city functions like an overloaded metabolic system. It pulsates with light and the movement of bodies entangled in the infrastructure. Its choreography is dictated by the rhythm of work and the circulation of capital. The cells are exploited. The cells are exhausted. The cells are sick. They do not heal evenly. Some become overgrown, […]