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We are in Tunis for the 8th edition of the Jaou Tunis Biennale (@jaoutunis), which is open across the Tunisian capital until 22 November 2026.

Founded in 2013 by the @kamel_lazaar_foundation, Jaou Tunis focuses on lens-based work from the Global South and its diaspora. This edition is built around the Biennale de l’Image en Mouvement, Becoming the Ocean (BIM’26), produced by the @centredartcontemporaingeneve with the Kamel Lazaar Foundation and presented at Quechlet El Attarine in the Medina of Tunis, the first time the Biennale de l’Image en Mouvement has taken place outside Switzerland.

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#FLOLondon #FLOArts #JaouTunis #BIM26 #KamelLazaarFoundation

Unstrung, 2026, by @carbonbasedfunk, a single-channel video installation shot on 16 mm that looks at the Sudan war through song, dance, music and poetry, using military and war archives to show how the energy and climate around revolution has been appropriated.

In a Muscle Mood, 2026, by @krazykosmickid brings the Manguni Body Building Club of 1950s Jakarta together with Sartana, a Minahasan street network formed by former soldiers and migrants in the early 1970s, following an encounter in a restaurant between a Minahasan deserter and a member of the Menteng elite to explore how trauma, power, intimacy and vulnerability are carried across generations.

Mbwiti by Hildegard Titus, also a single-channel video installation about being an Aawambo person whose family has lost touch with its ancestral homeland in northern Namibia through migration, and what it means to return and look for roots that cannot be recovered in the same form.

Powerless (Prelude), 2026, by @_melancholia, a rear projection video installation about a child making art and arguing with her absent mother in a disordered home, seen only through surveillance and body-worn cameras, as a helicopter circles overhead and the promise of rescue and the capacity for violence come from the same machine.

@p.nazarethedicoesltda shows The Wale Man, 2011 /2026, drawn from his personal archive and shown as part of CINEMA TROPICAL’c a cinema-installation he conceives as a platform for several films.

Untitled, 2026, by @younes_

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Circle blessings

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[UPCOMING] Like a punch to the guts → Curated by Anya Harrison
Opening October 16th - 5 to 8p.m
Galerie Derouillon, Étienne Marcel

With the participation of: Désirée Nakouzi De Monte & Andrea Parenti of Collezione Nancy Delroi, Keunmin Lee, Shahryar Nashat, Steve Reinke, James Richards, Sibylle Ruppert, Diane Severin Nguyen.

A heavy thud. A sharp sting. A flash of bright light. The momentary blindness that surely follows. Delivered hard enough, a simple punch can fully shut down the body, arriving soon enough at a permanent final destination. If a deep, rippling shockwave is enough to disrupt the normal functioning of an organism, could the same be said of these works? The anxiety-riddled materiality of an image, with all its synthetic fleshiness interrupted by the occasional glitch, contaminates its surroundings. Provoking a radiating pain in bodies without borders, a haptic seeing that weighs down on the nervous system’s pressure points, it frees form and images from the constrictions and stranglehold of meaning. We should be so lucky.

@anyacharrison @collezionenancydelroi @painter_keunmin @shahryar.nashat @_melancholia
#SibylleRuppert #SteveReinke #JamesRichards

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🔔Pre-orders of the new issue are on sale today at the link in bio🔔

Cover 2 of 3: Stanislava Kovalčiková meets Benjamin Barlow for coffee and the crypt. Damien Hirst, on the spot, talks shop with Cornelius Tittel. Charles Ray puts the world together with Andrew Winer. Ahead of her museum show in Munich, Diane Severin Nguyen adjusts the focus. Karol Palczak sets realism on fire. And Bruno Bischofberger is remembered by those closest to him.

Then, François Halard and Joe Bradley enjoy the view at Ward Bennett’s masterpiece, Wenner House. Willem de Kooning’s Clamdigger is poetically dissected by Brandt Junceau. Hans-Joachim Müller rebuilds the legend of post-Renaissance renegade François de Nomé. Gesine Borcherdt takes a deep dive into the Blaschkas’ undersea world of wonders. And John Corbett remembers the starry nights when the Bob Thompson found his groove.

Other highlights include: Nicolas Winding Refn on the television. Nicolas Gausserand takes the d’Orsay contemporary. Dorothea Zwirner opens the Wahl Sisters’ archive. Michael Peppiatt on how Bacon found a way in Picasso. Claes Juhlin revisits Jayne Wrightsman’s Fifth Avenue apartment. Ulf Poschardt remembers a soprano on four wheels. And Diego Marcon writes about his favorite film, Flashdance.

@damienhirst @karolpalczak @queenstagrame @_melancholia @daisyaecw @claesjuhlin @ulfposh @gesineborcherdt @benmbarlow @francoishalard @joebradleystudio @johnccorbett @maxdax @die.marcon @jordrich90 @drmichaelpeppiatt @nwrefn @dorothea.zwirner @zo03e @buckellison @piotrniepsuj @philotheusnisch @oskar.proctor @meireundmeire @charlotte.cassel @nutshell.and.co @david_douard @pieterjan.depaepe @chan.carson @zuzannabartoszek @blancdexin

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Diane Severin Nguyen, 𝑊𝐴𝑅 𝑆𝑂𝑁𝐺𝑆 𝑑𝑢𝑒𝑡, @icavcu, Richmond, USA
18 September 2026 - 21 February 2027
Curated by Egbert Vongmalaithong

𝑊𝐴𝑅 𝑆𝑂𝑁𝐺𝑆 𝑑𝑢𝑒𝑡 is a kinetic and sonic installation that creates unlikely musical and cultural mash-ups and examines and the lasting effects pop media has on our collective subconscious. The exhibition remixes recordings of Cold War and Vietnam War–era protest anthems, pop songs, and Vietnamese folk songs, reimagining and distilling once-live performances on an abandoned stage set. The installation is an adaptation of Severin Nguyen’s performance piece 𝑊𝐴𝑅 𝑆𝑂𝑁𝐺𝑆, which was commissioned by the 2025 Performa Biennial.

Images: Diane Severin Nguyen: 𝑊𝐴𝑅 𝑆𝑂𝑁𝐺𝑆 𝑑𝑢𝑒𝑡, installation view, ICA at VCU, 2026. Photos by David Hale.

@_melancholia #DianeSeverinNguyen

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Folks, that is a wrap for me on Performa––four years, two positions, and a bunch of art with some of my favorite people! I can’t tell you how much of a joy and a privilege it has been to work alongside artists to realize their most out-there ideas and dreams. I don’t quite know what’s next for me, so drop me a line for any of your curatorial or editorial needs. ✨🫶❤️‍🩹

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context for @cfgny2’s 10th anniversary show last week. the show was an exploration of the impact the Sony portapak camcorder had on the development of video arts. My performance was a reference to Korean American artist Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s piece ‘Mouth to Mouth’ where she mouths the vowels of the Korean language, considering how lost language can underscore one’s sense of displacement. I was cast as the ‘male douche’ with the prompt to distort and almost sexualize the silent artist’s voice — something we are all too familiar with.

three amazing writers @whitneymallett Paul Chi for @vogue and @dionysus.in.modernity for @artforum explain much better than I how important this show was. And yes, QingYuan, so true, so very true.

Vision: @cfgny2
Styling: @avenagallagher
Styling Coordinator: @willum.iv
Hair: @Kazukatahira
Makeup: @souhi_lee @milkmakeup
Nails: @c_ielle
Shoes: @marsell.official
Eyewear: @mykitaofficial @akila.la
Jewelry: @lauralombardi @hera_jwlry @hannahjewett._
Lookbook Photography: @davidbrandongeeting
BTS Photography: @pablogonzez
Performance Photography: @rk_co_image
Event Photography: @anaisest_
Sound: @l_y_d_o
Lighting: @s.arai__
Movement: @elliot_reed_laboratories
Dramaturg/PR: @cyntheticpleasures
Amant PR: @nothingobstacle
Kitchen PR: @purplepr
Stage Management: @buffysierra
Production: @amant.arts @thekitchen_nyc
Catering: @h31.syk @bong.nyc @puredegrees

@tin20000 @l_y_d_o @chiiikinfat #DanielChew @ang.pdf @trishabag @perletoure @anhqvo @lumit @princessofchinatown @cyntheticpleasures @henrybae @blakeabbie @apollobual @zzhiwei @_melancholia @shaobohan @kilybo @alima_lee @puppiespuppiesjade @stewart.uoo @willium0_o @sungtieu @happiness.2021 @aleungcameyou @suadiology @mrfishsauce @frequentlyaskedquestion @sicknethi @nnnvvvaaa @uncoercive_ @dandelionwhispers1987 @bataba2ta @lordasa777 @colelu @kreung_cambodia @pmp2021 @hannahurhannahur @lotuslkang

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for @cfgny2 🪶 styling by @avenagallagher

hair @kazukatahira
makeup @souhi_lee
nails @c_ielle
dramaturg/PR @cyntheticpleasures
production @amant.arts @thekitchen_nyc
retouching @shaletin

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@cfgny2 10th Anniversary & 5th Fashion Presentation. ~When your mother is on your mood board you know you’ve worked on something significant. A mental feast to create these “Vaguely Asian” beauty looks for CFGNY and their artistic practice as fashion performance.
TY 🦐 @avenagallagher for tucking me into this Nori roll, convos w you and @chiiikinfat about video and performance art , the asian technology boom in the 1980’s, racial identity and what confines us. @cyntheticpleasures for rapid pr text support. @kazukatahira hair fam. @ang.pdf glamorous 🎤dropper and Joseph @amant.arts my mvp who doesn’t have an insta avoiding virtual gossip.
Look book roll out @davidbrandongeeting
🥛 @milkmakeup for sponsorship

Special love 💗to every cast member / culture shifter and a top tier assistant team 🍊. It was quite a joy ride.
🫠🪭❤️‍🔥

@tin20000 @l_y_d_o @chiiikinfat #DanielChew @ang.pdf @trishabag @perletoure @anhqvo @lumit @princessofchinatown @cyntheticpleasures @henrybae @blakeabbie @apollobual @zzhiwei @_melancholia @shaobohan @kilybo @alima_lee @puppiespuppiesjade @stewart.uoo @willium0_o @sungtieu @happpiness.2021 @aleungcameyou @suadiology @mrfishsauce @frequentlyaskedquestion @sicknethi @nnnvvvaaa @uncoercive_ @dandelionwhispers1987 @bataba2ta @lordasa777 @colelu @kreung_cambodia @pmp2021 @hannahurhannahur @lotuslkang @huyylluong
@sadahart @masako.fuyama @kaiashimua @el__debratto @evamaramua @tamingchen

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EN COURS / ON VIEW

Diane Severin Nguyen, IF REVOLUTION IS A SICKNESS
@_melancholia

We are thrilled to present Diane Severin Nguyen's film IF REVOLUTION IS A SICKNESS (2001) in our Bunker, a work that restages revolutionary rhetoric through critical pop performance. Visit our website for more information.

Nous sommes ravis de présenter le film IF REVOLUTION IS A SICKNESS (2001) de Diane Severin Nguyen au Bunker, une œuvre qui met en scène la rhétorique révolutionnaire à travers une performance pop critique. Visitez notre site web pour plus d'informations.

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Diane Severin Nguyen, IF REVOLUTION IS A SICKNESS. Photo: @seminaroj

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Diane Severin Nguyen in “Reupholstered and Undressed” at LOMEX

Diane Severin Nguyen
Victory, 2025
LightJet C-print, custom steel frame

Drain the Whole Sea, 2025
LightJet C-print, custom steel frame

@_melancholia @lomexgallery

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T-MINUS 3 DAYS TIL CFG-20260717
Time to play ~Guess Da Baby~ ROUND 1 featuring a number of our 5th collection’s cast members! Sneak peek our performer roster here
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1. LYDO @l_y_d_o
2. Diane Severin Nguyen @_melancholia
3. Anthony Ha @has_dac_biet
4. Ami Lien @uncoercive_
5. Anh Vo @anhqvo
6. Apollo Bual @apollobual
7. Blake Abbie @blakeabbie
8. Asa Thiên-Ân Nguyễn @lordasa777
9. Angelique Rosales Salgado @ang.pdf
10. Chakriya Un @kreung_cambodia
11. Hanna Hur @hannahurhannahur
12. Akil Francisco @kilybo
13. Lumi Tan @lumit

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