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The Body Writes Back: Language, Data and Opacity in HsinYing Lin's Trapped
By Dr. Jeroen van Dooren
22nd June 2026
Introduction
Contemporary life is saturated with systems that promise clarity. We are encouraged to communicate more effectively, make ourselves visible, construct coherent identities, and render our experiences increasingly legible to others. Language is expected to communicate. The body is expected to identify. Yet both language and the body are far less stable than these assumptions suggest.
It is precisely within this instability that HsinYing Lin's exhibition Trapped operates.
Between Poetics and Critique: Austin Ivers’s A cobalt sea and above it a cobalt sky in the
Age of Vaporwave Curating
By Dr. Jeroen van Dooren
14th of September 2025
Shortlisted for IAAC awards 2025
International Awards for Art Criticism（IAAC）
Introduction
In a cultural moment saturated with pastel-toned nostalgia and aesthetic ambiguity - what Rahel Aima terms “vaporwave curating” in her Frieze essay - Austin Ivers’s exhibition A cobalt sea and above it a cobalt sky offers a strikingly different proposition. Staged at The Transformation Gallery in London between 25 April and 11 May 2025, Ivers’s work resists the lulling poetics of affect-driven curating. Instead, it retools nostalgia as a forensic device, probing the architectures of media, memory, and myth through visual restraint and conceptual clarity.
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