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, […]
From a Faraway Meadow (Desde un prado lejano)
Through porcelain, María Enríquez shifts elements of the organic—flowers, petals, sprouts—toward a state of permanence. The ephemeral becomes fixed in a material historically linked to delicacy, ornament, and conservation. The installation thus moves between persistence and disappearance, between the desire to preserve and the inescapable awareness of loss. The meadow here appears as a liminal […]
Being and Longing: Enough Is Never Enough
Some people believe earnestness and intellectualism are mutually exclusive. Some people have become consumed with brands and trends. I am not one of these people. Every once in a while, you meet someone or experience something that alters your present perspective, that fucks with your future understanding, that urges you to retrace the steps you […]
Wisła felt lonely so I invited her in
In the project Wisła felt lonely so I invited her inI explore the role of water within the domestic sphere, focusing specifically on the presence of the Vistula River (known in Polish as Wisła) in the bathroom. Most of the water running through Warsaw homes originates from her. Our most frequent daily contact with water […]
Tartan Tartana
In a five page long story first written a few years ago, a girl from an undefined period in pre-historical times narrates her life in her home, a boggy glen surrounded by onion grass, which she learns to pick and replant in her family’s land, in what seems like the beginning of farming. Her voice […]