ArtReview's January-February 2022 issue explores bodies, networks, and virtual-physical collisions

ArtReview's January & February 2022 issue examines intersections between physical and virtual realms through multiple artistic perspectives. Dafna Maimon creates visceral video and installation work exploring how bodies shape actions and society influences corporeal states, with Chris Fite-Wassilak noting medicine's growing role in modern life. Fiona Glen discusses artists using digital world-building to highlight human connections with nonhuman systems, contrasting with big tech's push for immersive online experiences. Noémie Goudal employs photography, moving image, and installations to create natural world illusions that question representation and humanity's relationship with planetary time. The issue also features activist-critic Pandora Storm's environmental commentary, Ross Simonini's interview with surrealist painter E'wao Kagoshima, and Mark Rappolt's conversation with CIRCA founder Josef O'Connor about digital art displays across global cities. Critical assessments include Aaina Bhargava on M+ museum's ambitions in Hong Kong, Oliver Basciano on V-A-C's Moscow art center amid geopolitical tensions, and Adeline Chia on Singapore's unique themepark-museum. Exhibition reviews cover Gillian Wearing's show at New York's Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the Biennale de l'Image en Mouvement in Geneva, while book reviews analyze works by C.A. Davids, Chloe Aridjis, and David Graeber & David Wengrow.