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ArtReview Gelare Khoshgozaran ‘Medina Wasl: Connecting Town’ (still), 2018, 16mm film transferred to video, sound, colour, 31 min The Los Angeles-based Iranian filmmaker opens up a brave new world of contemporary storytelling In late October last year, a neon-yellow envelope came through my letterbox. Inside was a thick black card embossed with the sentence, ‘The gradients of fascism are diverse in their predictable dullness’. On the other side was a business-card-size USB drive, printed with a patchy green pattern of what might be an ivy-covered wall, punctuated by a figure covering ...

The Art of Queer Support in 2020 This year has shown many of us the importance of community-building, but for queer artists it isn’t just about mirroring an existing public sphere In June 2020, London’s Cell Project Space posted hundreds of fluorescent-yellow envelopes to addresses in the UK and abroad. Each contained a photocopy of a handwritten letter that described the feeling of being drenched by ‘the waterfall of the world’, plus a vial housing a scent recalling the smell of sweat, mould and damp. For recipients outside the UK, the vial had been removed by the ...

Olu Ogunnaike’s Radical Revival of London Plane Trees A new commission at Cell Project Space confronts questions about our complicity in the gentrification of our cities  For London Plain (all works 2020) – a site-specific installation that reclaims Cell Project Space from its temporary, pandemic-induced programming hiatus – Olu Ogunnaike has covered the gallery’s original floor with a herringbone parquet. The artist sourced the lumber from London plane trees, which, due to their capacity to absorb pollution, were planted in abundance along roadsides in the capital...