Frieze Masters and 1-54 London 2026
Review

In London, Frieze Masters and 1-54 are giving greater prominence to Arab and African modernisms long marginalised in Western art history. Beyond their growing recognition on the international art market, this renewed visibility invites us to rethink the narratives, exchanges and boundaries of modernism. But it also raises a question: do these categories risk confining artists to yet another set of labels?

Hold by Tarek Atoui, Tate Modern Turbine Hall commission, London
Snapshot review

Lebanese artist Tarek Atoui presents Hold, an immersive sound installation of which I offer a highly subjective, sensory reading, in which sound takes the place of images.

Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica, group exhibition at the Barbican Centre, London
Review

Bringing together nearly 300 works spanning Africa and its diasporas, Project a Black Planet sets out to rethink Pan-Africanism as an evolving, “imagined geography”. At London’s Barbican Centre, an ambitious exhibition whose blind spots also reveal the limits of that proposition, before it travels to KANAL–Centre Pompidou in Brussels.