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Tom Snow reviews Mustafa Hulusi's latest exhibition, <em>Negative Ecstasy</em>, curated by November Paynter, for Dirimart's recently-opened space in Istanbul. Hulusi – British-born, of Turkish-Cypriot descent – invokes the work of French literary critic Georges Bataille, in order, as Snow notes, to maintain an allegorical status in which an image becomes...

The 14th Istanbul Biennial is as broadly defined as it is integrated into the city, <em>SALTWATER: A Theory of Thought Forms</em> is bound together, according to 'organizer' Carolyn Christov-Barkargiev, by 'one of the most ubiquitous materials in the world'. 'Ubiquity might well speak to the conflicted politics of biennials currently'...

In this report, Tom Snow reflects on a talk by Renzo Martens at the Institute of Contemporary Art, London, in December 2014. The Dutch artist presented and discussed a series of slides depicting sculptural self-portraits by artists from the Democratic Republic of Congo, and were exhibited internationally thereafter. Martens argues...