"References*" shows a shift in the practices of the participating artists that is fresh and welcome on the local scene.
Unless text is truly part of the work, notes like this feel like a conceptual get-out-of-jail-free card for works that supposedly need explanation
Though the word lazy isn’t really allowed in the art criticism lexicon anymore, frankly that’s what the exhibition feels like — and not in an intentional way.
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