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Condo London 2024
Various venues, London, 20 January–17 February

Condo, the gallery-sharing initiative founded by Vanessa Carlos of Carlos/Ishikawa in 2016, returns to London after a four-year hiatus. The month-long edition promises the ‘evaluation of existing models, pooling resources and acting communally to propose an environment that is more conducive for experimental gallery exhibitions to take place internationally’, which all sounds very nice if it wasn’t held in the city’s quietest and most financially-arid month – a kind of January Sales for the artworld. Luckily, a few swallows might yet a summer make. Ketuta Alexi-Meskhishvili’s photographic experiments enact dreams in sheer gauzes and gloss, ghostly prints – and feature in a group show for LC Queisser, Tbilisi (hosted at Hollybush Gardens); Alexandre Khondji’s polished metalworks bring menace in conversation with Christopher Aque’s washed-out prints on linen for Sweetwater, Berlin (at Maureen Paley); Vica Pacheco, a musical artist whose hermetic, almost pristine pieces layer and warp vocal and field recordings, will have a solo for PEANA, Mexico City (at Public Gallery). As ever, the scent of an art-crawl isn’t far off – try guzzling six galleries from Soft Opening to Union Pacific in just 38 brisk-footed January minutes.

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