Glean

Survival in the 21st Century

Glean 5, Autumn 2024

Review by Catrin Lorch

The beluga does not look well. Its tail fin is stuck limply in the gravel. With its eyes closed, it floats rather than swims. It has also straightened up (or is he standing up, receiving the strange figures that emerge from the background?). They are wearing suits, have briefcases in their hands and greet him casually. More fish than people, even if they appear as if there is something to negotiate here. Goshka Macuga’s tapestry, Who Gave Us a Sponge to Erase the Horizon? (2022), is almost a (…)

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