Stan Portus is a writer and editor whose work has appeared in C Magazine, Ossian Magazine, Photomonitor, Emotional Art Magazine, Design Exchange Magazine, Review 31 and others.

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Consumed
Design Exchange Magazine

Film review
2018

“The ecological crisis we face is so obvious that it becomes easy,” writes philosopher Timothy Morton in his book, The Ecological Thought, “to join the dots and see that everything is interconnected.” From the microscopic to the macroscopic, and beyond to the unfathomably big, everything on this planet is entangled in an unimaginable set of relations. Morton conceptualises this as a mesh. (...)

Berlinde De Bruyckere: Stages and Tails
thisistomorrow

Exhibition review
2018

When you visit Hauser & Wirth, Somerset, what is striking from the very beginning is the grandeur of the location. Nestled just outside the village of Bruton, the large complex of restored farm buildings seems at odds with the local rugby club’s goal posts, that are just visible above the site’s perimeter. Inside the gallery, the warmth of the brick walls welcomes you, and the surrounding land is framed beautifully in floor to ceiling windows. Because the landscape is immediately so integral to the experience when visiting these galleries, it feels odd that in the first room of Berlinde De Bruyckere’s exhibition ‘Stages and Tails’, the windows are covered up. (...)

Art and China after 1989:
Theater of the World
thisistomorrow

Exhibition review
2018

Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World, at the Guggenheim Bilbao, aims to show the recent history of Chinese Art, bracketed by the events of Tiananmen Square in 1989 and the Beijing Olympics in 2008, two events that radically altered China’s relationship to itself and with the rest of the world. This is the second iteration of the exhibition after its first staging at the Guggenheim, New York last year – an exhibition that was shrouded in controversy and has resulted in a show that includes what feels like an overwhelming 120 works by 60 artists, spread out across 6 themed sections. (...)

Mark Jenkin: Bait
Design Exchange Magazine

Interview
2018

Mark Jenkin’s latest film presents economic conflict in one of Britain’s most remote corners through narrative, aesthetics and the production process itself.

Cornwall seems trapped at a kind of perpetual crossroads. Much of its identity is understood through industrial history, with mining existing in the county for almost as long as memory itself. The same goes for fishing, but for some time now both have been competing with another business; namely tourism. (...)

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