ArtReview April 2025 explores representation, body horror, and trauma through global artists

The April 2025 issue of ArtReview examines representation systems and knowledge forms through diverse artistic practices. Yuki Kihara, a Japanese-Sāmoan artist, confronts Western stereotyping of Indigenous Pacific bodies across two decades of multidisciplinary work. Her new video Darwin Drag features the biologist transformed into a clownfish, challenging evolutionary theory's exclusion of non-binary sex traits in marine species. Tom Seymour analyzes body horror's resurgence amid AI aesthetics, citing films like The Substance and Shell alongside artists Mire Lee and Lu Yang. Gabrielle Goliath's multimedia installations address gendered violence through collective mourning without retraumatizing survivors. Ariella Aïsha Azoulay discusses projects reimagining Jewish-Muslim relations within the ummah. Additional essays explore culinary experiences in exhibitions, Warsaw's relocated Museum of Modern Art, and AI artist training. Reviews cover Christine Sun Kim at New York's Whitney Museum, Wafaa Bilal at Chicago's MCA, and exhibitions in Mexico City, Accra, and Geneva.