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Pauline Batista: The body against the tyranny of optimisation

Ahead of her upcoming show in Mexico City, Rio-born multimedia artist Pauline Batista discusses her previous exhibition, ‘Methylene Blue Dreams’, and how her work blends medicine, fantasy, and the human form to challenge our constant drive towards self-optimisation.   Clelia Reka Frondaroli   A vial of methylene blue sits suspended […]

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Forest dreams

An anthropologist, with field work in Alaska behind her, moves across the Bering Strait to the Kamchatka peninsula in the Russian Far East. There she finds the animist impulse of which only traces had remained with indigenous Alaskans.   Sean Sheehan   She meets the reindeer-herding Even people who, under […]