A few of our favourite reveals this week are all about giving new life to previous issues and our environments from a unique perspective: artistic reuse, recycling and repurposing objects, and re-envisioning structure as inviting and inclusive. Whereas Kiah Celeste and Yuji Agematsu create artwork from utilitarian objects and refuse in vastly other ways, an exhibition on the legacy of feminist architect Phyllis Birkby provides options to “hostile structure.” As a complement to that present, make sure that to take a look at Gordon Corridor’s Hands and Knees at The Kitchen, closing this weekend. And Xingzi Gu’s intimate, tender work are all the time laborious to withstand. —Natalie Haddad, Evaluations Editor
Kiah Celeste: To Be Held for a Lengthy Time
Swivel Gallery, 555 Greenwich Avenue, Hudson Sq., Manhattan
By way of June 1
“Celeste focuses much less on the idea of salvaging discarded issues than on discovering different identities for industrial or utilitarian objects that may in any other case sit in rubbish heaps.” —NH
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Xingzi Gu: Fluffing the Foliage
Clearing, 260 Bowery, Nolita, Manhattan
By way of June 21
“There’s a disappointment to those work, which could be their truest topic.” —John Yau
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Yuji Agematsu: 2023–2024
Judd Foundation, 101 Spring Avenue, Soho; and 229 Lenox Avenue, Harlem, Manhattan
By way of August 30
“With 366 objects in a room, I questioned if my consideration would wane. However Agematsu’s compositions stored delivering distinctive jolts of surprising convivence” —Debra Brehmer
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Fantasizing Design: Phyllis Birkby Builds Lesbian Feminist Structure
Center for Architecture, 536 LaGuardia Place, Greenwich Village, Manhattan
By way of September 2
“I used to be struck by the emphasis on collectivity and assist in these works by queer ladies and trans artists, on stripping away an structure of isolation, singular use, and protectionism.” —Alexis Clements
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