Dorian Vale - MUSEUM OF ONE (Page 3)

01 Nov 2025 3 min read

On Agnus by Konstantin Korobov (2022)

Seven bodies twist inwards, fur bristling, jaws poised, a storm of hunger bound by an unspoken law. Low growls vibrate through the pack, more command than appetite. Into a stillness that even the stillness feels alive.

30 Oct 2025 5 min read

| Nomadic Aesthetics: Travelling Installations as Moral Geography

Every artwork that travels carries not just its materials but the conditions of its displacement—the weather of transit, the politics of border crossings, the fatigue of repetition. Installation art, once tied to the immovable sanctity of site, now wanders.

23 Oct 2025 5 min read

||| The First Pillars Raised: A Statement on the Completion of the Foundational Trilogy

With the release of Volume III – The Canon of Witnesses, the foundational trilogy of Post-Interpretive Criticism now stands complete.

20 Oct 2025 6 min read

Against the Compulsive Urge to Interpret

Art today drowns not in silence but in surplus. Walls in galleries sag beneath explanatory texts, catalogues become mausoleums of interpretation, and critics multiply interpretations until the work itself is barely visible.

16 Oct 2025 5 min read

Principles of Post-Interpretive Criticism: A Study Guide

Post-Interpretive Criticism (PIC) isn’t a methodology one applies to a work. It’s a moral orientation — a shift in how one stands in front of a thing that breathes silence. Before the critic speaks, before the essay is begun, before the language is chosen, there is the moment of approach.