guy mannes-abbott
@guymannesabbott.bsky.social
Author & critic of things essential, sometimes in the form of e.things -see In Ramallah, Running (2012) for example. In muddy flight… #rivering
It’s a great show, first for years in London. I was stopped in my tracks, reluctantly, by his leaf studies years ago, dried, drying, intense pluriverses. Some of the flowers; fritillaries! swell sappily on the vellum, but that red onion, painted in India haha! is just something else. A bodhi onion…
November 25, 2025 at 8:44 PM
It’s a great show, first for years in London. I was stopped in my tracks, reluctantly, by his leaf studies years ago, dried, drying, intense pluriverses. Some of the flowers; fritillaries! swell sappily on the vellum, but that red onion, painted in India haha! is just something else. A bodhi onion…
‘The morning wind and I were dazed at watching the tulips in the garden of Eros, and, intimately, were wondering which martyrs they, with their red shrouds, had been.’
Hafez translated by Ehsanullah Ferzad, Kabul, 1976.
Rory McEwen at The Garden Museum.
Hafez translated by Ehsanullah Ferzad, Kabul, 1976.
Rory McEwen at The Garden Museum.
November 25, 2025 at 8:38 PM
‘The morning wind and I were dazed at watching the tulips in the garden of Eros, and, intimately, were wondering which martyrs they, with their red shrouds, had been.’
Hafez translated by Ehsanullah Ferzad, Kabul, 1976.
Rory McEwen at The Garden Museum.
Hafez translated by Ehsanullah Ferzad, Kabul, 1976.
Rory McEwen at The Garden Museum.
Naeem Mohaiemen’s Through a Mirror, Darkly (Artangel) is still on for a week or two in Petty France. As always, nobody wants to miss Naeem’s way of activating as well as instrumentalising archives. Go and let Agnew make you feel sick/the sickness of our times afresh…
November 16, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Naeem Mohaiemen’s Through a Mirror, Darkly (Artangel) is still on for a week or two in Petty France. As always, nobody wants to miss Naeem’s way of activating as well as instrumentalising archives. Go and let Agnew make you feel sick/the sickness of our times afresh…
EV-M speaking now!
Montevideo a novel
Montevideo a novel
November 12, 2025 at 7:05 PM
EV-M speaking now!
Montevideo a novel
Montevideo a novel
Glad to stumble upon this from Wolfgang Tillman’s (from IG).
Another reason to catch his xlnt and poignant return to Herald Street in particular amongst the three shows at Maureen Paley’s spaces til 20 December.
Another reason to catch his xlnt and poignant return to Herald Street in particular amongst the three shows at Maureen Paley’s spaces til 20 December.
October 26, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Glad to stumble upon this from Wolfgang Tillman’s (from IG).
Another reason to catch his xlnt and poignant return to Herald Street in particular amongst the three shows at Maureen Paley’s spaces til 20 December.
Another reason to catch his xlnt and poignant return to Herald Street in particular amongst the three shows at Maureen Paley’s spaces til 20 December.
More or less the same thing, for me; Celtis australis, Bronti Close, Walworth #HeygateLegacyForest #FutureSpecies
October 26, 2025 at 2:05 PM
More or less the same thing, for me; Celtis australis, Bronti Close, Walworth #HeygateLegacyForest #FutureSpecies
Small & quite actually-strange in an obviously good way as well as, well, yeh strong embrace of estrangement way/s. Helen Marten at Sadie Cole’s in Bury St., St James’s.
Series of big ‘canvases’, chunky frames incl inserted ones w people & snails plus (a)typical very free mucking/experimenting 👁️👁️
Series of big ‘canvases’, chunky frames incl inserted ones w people & snails plus (a)typical very free mucking/experimenting 👁️👁️
October 25, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Small & quite actually-strange in an obviously good way as well as, well, yeh strong embrace of estrangement way/s. Helen Marten at Sadie Cole’s in Bury St., St James’s.
Series of big ‘canvases’, chunky frames incl inserted ones w people & snails plus (a)typical very free mucking/experimenting 👁️👁️
Series of big ‘canvases’, chunky frames incl inserted ones w people & snails plus (a)typical very free mucking/experimenting 👁️👁️
Palestinians being subjected to genocide have every right to speak! & request support in any form they like! One of the Palestinian a/cs removed here was Anas al-Sharif’s.
It matters! 🗝️ ↩️ 🇵🇸
It matters! 🗝️ ↩️ 🇵🇸
October 15, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Palestinians being subjected to genocide have every right to speak! & request support in any form they like! One of the Palestinian a/cs removed here was Anas al-Sharif’s.
It matters! 🗝️ ↩️ 🇵🇸
It matters! 🗝️ ↩️ 🇵🇸
Another view, you must be desperate for!
Everything green will go, part ‘restored’ w new trees but a huge chunk lost. Southwark Council doing their utmost to bake people at home & when they step out! They want to cut a road thru this to that little bin store on the R vs pull bins/store kerbside!? 🤪🤬
Everything green will go, part ‘restored’ w new trees but a huge chunk lost. Southwark Council doing their utmost to bake people at home & when they step out! They want to cut a road thru this to that little bin store on the R vs pull bins/store kerbside!? 🤪🤬
October 13, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Another view, you must be desperate for!
Everything green will go, part ‘restored’ w new trees but a huge chunk lost. Southwark Council doing their utmost to bake people at home & when they step out! They want to cut a road thru this to that little bin store on the R vs pull bins/store kerbside!? 🤪🤬
Everything green will go, part ‘restored’ w new trees but a huge chunk lost. Southwark Council doing their utmost to bake people at home & when they step out! They want to cut a road thru this to that little bin store on the R vs pull bins/store kerbside!? 🤪🤬
Elim Estate in Southwark over the weekend; all the trees you see delivering measurable public welfare & (in)tangible benefits will be destroyed (a big NET transfer of welfare AWAY from residents w v little) for a road because @lb-southwark.bsky.social bring rubbish trucks to bins vs bins to trucks?!
October 13, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Elim Estate in Southwark over the weekend; all the trees you see delivering measurable public welfare & (in)tangible benefits will be destroyed (a big NET transfer of welfare AWAY from residents w v little) for a road because @lb-southwark.bsky.social bring rubbish trucks to bins vs bins to trucks?!
Nakba to genocide, 1948 to 2025.
#FreePalestine
#FreePalestine
October 10, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Nakba to genocide, 1948 to 2025.
#FreePalestine
#FreePalestine
A bit of context, more (irresistible!) at the link:
October 10, 2025 at 8:57 AM
A bit of context, more (irresistible!) at the link:
From my 2015-17 Supercommunity text: www.e-flux.com/journal/65/3...
October 10, 2025 at 8:47 AM
From my 2015-17 Supercommunity text: www.e-flux.com/journal/65/3...
From my Journal, spring 1989 #October6th
October 10, 2025 at 8:37 AM
From my Journal, spring 1989 #October6th
Wolfgang is back in Herald Street/London. Don’t miss…
October 3, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Wolfgang is back in Herald Street/London. Don’t miss…
September 21, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Gravesend, 25 August 2025.
August 26, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Gravesend, 25 August 2025.
'I’m running in an actual place, which is how I knew that George Habash Square exists. Many believe the sign has been removed, disallowed, banned but here it is: no-one surrendered. I half ran out here & there it was standing up against the Settlements in the Palestinian hills' In Ramallah, Running.
August 24, 2025 at 7:04 PM
'I’m running in an actual place, which is how I knew that George Habash Square exists. Many believe the sign has been removed, disallowed, banned but here it is: no-one surrendered. I half ran out here & there it was standing up against the Settlements in the Palestinian hills' In Ramallah, Running.
Be sure not to miss Hamad Butt: Apprehensions at Whitechapel Gallery only until 7 September!
His Familiars -shown at Milch in 1992!- fill the downstairs gallery with earlier work like this upstairs plus an archive room.
Hearty nod to Jean Fisher who was instrumental in getting Tate to acquire🙏
His Familiars -shown at Milch in 1992!- fill the downstairs gallery with earlier work like this upstairs plus an archive room.
Hearty nod to Jean Fisher who was instrumental in getting Tate to acquire🙏
August 22, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Be sure not to miss Hamad Butt: Apprehensions at Whitechapel Gallery only until 7 September!
His Familiars -shown at Milch in 1992!- fill the downstairs gallery with earlier work like this upstairs plus an archive room.
Hearty nod to Jean Fisher who was instrumental in getting Tate to acquire🙏
His Familiars -shown at Milch in 1992!- fill the downstairs gallery with earlier work like this upstairs plus an archive room.
Hearty nod to Jean Fisher who was instrumental in getting Tate to acquire🙏
Yh, genocide denial only goes so far:
August 21, 2025 at 6:39 AM
Yh, genocide denial only goes so far:
