
Myriam Ben Salah’s top ten highlights of 2020
Myriam Ben Salah is the director and chief curator of the Renaissance Society in Chicago. She recently organized (with Lauren Mackler and Ikechukwu Onyewuenyi) Made in L.A. 2020: “a version,” the fifth edition of the Hammer Museum’s biennial in Los Angeles.
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“SHAHRYAR NASHAT: FORCE LIFE” AND “ADAM LINDER: SHELF LIFE” (MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, NEW YORK; CURATED BY STUART COMER)
“Force Life/Shelf Life” was a provocative overlap of two exhibitions, a double meditation on the limits—in space, in time, in theory—of the body, one preferably without organs, one that flirts with technology. Nashat and Linder