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***Subscribe now or get your copy from our online shop<\/a>***<\/p>\n The French theorist Gaston Bachelard once wrote about the extent to which people come to resemble the space they inhabit. And vice versa. Visiting the Paris studio of Tarek Atoui<\/a>, Patrick Langley finds it to be \u2018a fitting metaphor for [his] practice as a whole: a sonic laboratory in which different materials, instruments, digital processes and people are brought together in ephemeral ensembles\u2019. The Lebanese artist and composer, who this month creates a new, largescale work to fill Tate Modern\u2019s Turbine Hall in London, creates experimental instruments \u2013 some so large you can step inside them, stones that vibrate when you sit on them, bowls of water that transmit compositions to the listener when they submerge their hands \u2013 to explore listening as an active process that can alter our awareness of bodies, spaces and environments, and highlight the connections among them. Connections of the type about which Bachelard once wrote.<\/p>\n It\u2019s connections and the lack of them that writer Shaunak Mahbubani explores as he discusses the forces of attraction and repulsion in Salman Toor\u2019s paintings, which test and probe the thresholds (real and imagined) that shape the queer and migrant experience. At its most literal, this is made manifest in a body of works that foreground the bodies of immigrants at airport checkpoints. In other instances, such as recent Fag Puddle works, the threshold takes on an \u2018amorphous form\u2019, writes Mahbubani, \u2018shapeshifting into a portal, collapsing into a puddle\u2019, depicting contradictory energies that both embody \u2018the comfortable safety of the cuddle puddle\u2019 and a limpness emblematic of resignation, \u2018reminiscent of the fatigue that queer, racialised, migrant and other nonhegemonic bodies carry when navigating a social structure that considers them an outsider\u2019.<\/p>\n Elsewhere, Sheila Hicks looks back on her 70-year career investigating the possibilities of textiles and colour, and grills interviewer and fellow artist Dan Coopey on what he\u2019s wearing. Hicks herself reveals how she considers making and doing to be ways of thinking about the world around her: seeing how others make and use textiles, how somebody ties their shoelaces, the particular scarf and jacket combination of a passerby or how a sock might begin to break and unravel through wear are all deeply embedded within her sculpture.<\/p>\n Also in this issue, on the centenary of the British writer\u2019s birth, Jenny Wu finds common ground between John Berger and \u00c9mile Zola; Ilaria Maria Sala finds an antidote to AI in a recreation of Umberto Eco\u2019s personal library in Bologna; Zoe Whitfield looks at a recent spate of films that tackle ageing, dementia and the right to control your own life<\/a>; Mitch Speed wonders if time has been unkind to Charles Ray\u2019s sculptures; and, in a galaxy far, far away, Desirae Embree feels the force (or lack of it) in George Lucas\u2019s new museum in LA<\/a>: you\u2019ll have to work out to what extant Bachelard\u2019s theories can be applied to that. Plus, reviews from exhibitions around the world, including Berlin, Athens, Copenhagen, Shenzhen and Mexico City, and of books by R\u00f3is\u00edn Tapponi, Ben Eastham and Lawrence Kramer.<\/p>\n Plus, free with this issue, a special supplement looking at philanthropy today.<\/p>\n ***Subscribe now or get your copy from our online shop<\/a>***<\/p>\n ArtReview<\/a>Previews<\/a>October 7, 2026ArtReview<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"on the cover Tarek Atoui, photographed by Benjamin Malapris in Paris, September 2026 ***Subscribe now or get your…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":924196,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[76,354,355,49,48,356,75],"class_list":["post-924195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-design","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=924195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/924196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=924195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=924195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=924195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}