‘The Last Safe Abortion’, ReviewedLouise DarblayArtReview12 July 2024Carmen Winant’s photo album-style homage to the unsung labour of abortion clinic staff is at once beautiful and sobering
Matthieu Laurette: Infinite JestLouise DarblayArtReview12 February 2024The artist’s first retrospective in his home country – at MAC VAL, Vitry-sur-Seine – reveals a career spent poking at notions of fame and value
Tove Jansson’s Revolutionary StorytellingLouise DarblayArtReview21 December 2022A new survey of the Finnish artist’s work revives the urge to revisit the world of the Moomins
The Absurdist Surrealism of Remote WorkingLouise DarblayArtReview25 October 2022Mika Rottenberg and Mahyad Tousi’s ‘Remote’ imagines a future lockdown with a magnetic combination of nostalgia and the bizarre
The Repressed Underworld of Susan Meiselas’s ‘Carnival Strippers’Louise Darblay20 July 2022Returning to the photographer’s Carnival Strippers, a deep dive into the ‘girl shows’ of small-town fairs and carnivals
Katia Kameli’s Search for Freedom in AlgeriaLouise DarblayArtReview19 July 2022The artist’s documentary video trilogy, ‘The Algerian Novel’, seeks to tell a visual history of the unseen and the unspoken
Venice Biennale 2022: Four Pavilions To See in the GiardiniLouise Darblayartreview.com22 April 2022The Sámi, Swiss, Finnish and Greek pavilions invite us to reflect on who gets to be included in a community