Lada Nakonechna's artworks featured in Art Review Oxford, Issue 12

Art Review Oxford
A print triannual contemporary art journal based at the University of Oxford
Issue 12, Spectral Ecologies
Spring, 2025


Editorial Note
In the 12th Issue of Art Review Oxford, Spectral Ecologies is approached as a methodology—a way of reading across materiality and absence, sound and silence, land and loss. It refers to the ecological dimension of memory, the intersection of environmental and archival hauntings, and the ‘recovery’ of the past through artistic practices.
This issue assembles contributions from a call for papers that confront the ghosts embedded in our landscapes—traces of empire, extraction, and displacement. As violence continues to rage through the human lives and environments of Palestine and Ukraine, the spectral becomes a vital framework for remembering and reckoning with ongoing loss, and the haunting persistence of historical injustice. Spectral Ecologies urgently gathers artists and writers who refuse to separate land from memory. Together, they explore spectral practices from across the planet, whether from the insurgent poetics of a fenced-off lot in Oakland, to transatlantic rituals of cleansing colonial ghosts, even to pierced apples as witnesses of collective trauma in China— these collective practices shape our understanding of place, history, and survival. This issue could not have been produced without the assistance of contributing editors Jason Waite and Joni Brown. We would also like to thank the following artists for allowing ARO to feature their work in this edition: Ayrson Heráclito, Mónica de Miranda, Liu Yaohua and Alia Farid, as well as the edition’s designer, Brandon Saunders.

Content

Editors’ Note 02
Ashia Ajani - Genealogy of a Vacant Lot 04
Lada Nakonechna - Perspective Reduction 06
Ale Nodarse - Stones of Atlit 10
Emi Koide and Camila Maroja - Trees, Spirits, and Colonial Hauntings in Ayrson Heráclito’s Atlantic Rituals 24
Vera-Simone Schulz - Ecologies of Recovery: Mónica de Miranda’s As If the World Had NoWest 30
Sia Yang - Pain is Pain: Liu Yaohua’s Disturbed 38
Adelaide Thierault - Erosion and Sediment: Post-Polymer Soil Memory 42
Marissa Clarke - The Meeting of the Waters 46
Eve Aspland - The Seeping of the Years 50
Avin Houro and Kacper Koleda, Review: Alia Farid, V&A (London, U.K.) and Radcliffe Institute (Cambridge, U.S.) 52
Pip Hudd, New Pastoral, Pusher Gallery (London) 60
Backpage: Lada Nakonechna, Work on the Ground 64

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