Motohiro Takeda’s “Nights in April (Ark)” (2025), part of the Bronx Museum’s AIM Biennial, inspired by his grandfather’s memorial in Japan.Credit...via The Bronx Museum; Photo by Argenis Apolinario
Critic’s Pick: "At the Bronx Biennial, the Promise of New Voices"
"Much of the work negotiates how the present is buffeted by the past. A diaphanous performance, on video, and ceramic wall relief by the Jamaican-born artist Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow channels the ghosts of Caribbean slavery and manages to evoke both Betty and Francesca Woodman. Motohiro Takeda’s “Nights in April (Ark)” (2025), a burned wood dinghy moored on a low concrete plinth carefully spread with ash, is suspended between life and death, catastrophe and deliverance.
February 5, 2026
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