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CASE STUDY: Objectification

Exhibition view during the 28th São Paulo Biennial, in a section of the Oscar Niemeyer-designed Ciccillo Matarazzo Pavilion, the main exhibition venue, controversially left entirel

PERSPECTIVE: Biennials and Infrastructural Shift—Part II

DUCK HYUN CHO, The Nora Collection, 2008/2012, installation of canvas drawings replicating portraits and episodes from the life of Korean fashion designer Nora Noh. Courtesy the ar

RECAP: Looking Back to Look Forward

TAREK ATOUI setting up four microphones in the desert of Ash Shigaya, north of Kuwait, to record the sound piece Unplified, 2012. Courtesy MinRASY Projects, London.

Tarek Atoui

AAKASH NIHALANI, Through, self-portrait from the “Public” series, 2007–08. Copyright the artist.

Aakash Nihalani

NEAMA A. ALSUDAIRY, Self Portrait, 2012, pencil and charcoal drawing, 20.3 x 25.4 cm. Courtesy the artist.

Neama A. Alsudairy

SHI QING, All That Is Solid Melts into Air, 2012, mixed-media installation at Shanghart’s H-Space, Shanghai, 2012. Photo by and courtesy the artist.

Shi Qing

Backfade_5 (Dancing Queen), 2011, mixed-media installation at Lisson Gallery, London, 2011.All images in this article are courtesy the artist.

Haroon Mirza: A Heightened Degree of Control

Salt Transfer Cycle, 1993–95, still from eight-minute video. Photo by and courtesy the artist.

Michael Joo: Devolution

The Letter Writing Project, 1998, interior view of one of three writing stations, 289 x 170 x 231 cm. Collections of Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Yageo Foundation, Tai

Lee Mingwei: Threads of Connection

“I Am Turkish, I Am Honest, I Am Diligent,” 1998–2006, detail of installation at Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna, 2005. Photo by the artist.All images in this article,

Esra Ersen: Empathy Machine

CEVDET EREK, Room of Rhythms, 2010–12, mixed-media installation, commissioned and produced by Documenta 13 with the support of SAHA, Istanbul, and the assistance of MIAM, Istanbul

Documenta 13

GRAHAM FLETCHER, Untitled (Lounge Room Tribalism), 2009, oil on canvas, 150 x 120 cm. Private Collection. Photo by Alex North. Courtesy Mangere Arts Centre, Auckland.

Auckland: Graham Fletcher

JUN YANG, Paris Syndrome, 2008, single-channel video installation at Artspace, Sydney, 2012. Photo by Silversalt Photography. Courtesy Artspace, Sydney.

Sydney: The Other's Other