Some subjects are conditioned to duality in order to be revealed: The Splendor and Misery of Bodies, of Cities is the promise of a continuation Samuel R. Delany announced at the close of his 1984 novel Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand – a sequel announced and never delivered. What remains is a title, an excerpt of 6,373 words available online, and forty years passed without a resolution. Johanna Odersky’s current show Of Bodies, Of Cities at Hillside reanimates Delany‘s lost sequel and joins a history of references through her continuous exploration of organizational systems and the shapes they adapt as bodies in landscapes.

José Montealegre tells tales of weaponry unable to strike and maps caught between biased states. In his second solo exhibition at Galerie Thomas Schulte Berlin, “Drastic Measures”, the apparatus of power has been copied until the force has gone out of it; its remnants lie scattered across the gallery's three rooms.