Summer is here and lockdown easing has begun, but in many parts of the world, the pandemic continues to reveal geographic and social inequalities and differences. Addressed in this issue: in the face of widespread anti-Asian prejudice in the West, ArtReview Asia turns to the work of filmmaker Richard Fung, and artists Hamishi Farah and Arahmaiani to discover how these artists have responded to its different incarnations, each in their own way; Kurdish activist, artist and journalist Zehra Doğan, who in 2017 was jailed for almost three years, during which time she produced artworks that were smuggled out disguised as dirty laundry; Shahzia Sikander and Julie Mehretu are queering and recasting conventional notions of art; and Ayman Zedani, whose multidisciplinary work takes on the task of reimagining the Gulf as a site of natural collaboration rather than natural extraction. Plus exhibition and book reviews.
