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Critical review – July 2023

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A Triple Embrace with Louise Bourgeois, Miles Greenberg, and Yoko Ono

by Jenny Wu, 3 July, 2023 "... Despite differences in intent and subjectivity, “Embrace the World from Within” is built on confluences of artistic sensibility and leakages of affect. In the works of Greenberg, Ono, and Bourgeois, the language of containment serves as a starting point and not as a constraint. In this way, Faurschou’s exhibition actively and continually refigures its notions of intimacy, sanctuary, and coexistence. To hold something from inside it seems at first like a feat of contortion, if not an impossible task. However, this introspective show plants a kernel of wild hope that we might, even from within our “different containers,” recognize our commonalities before we evaporate." Read full review here