The subject of “Games” is both universal—we have all been children—and profoundly intimate. In the vibrant tabletop assemblage In the world, not of it, 2018–19, an address, handwritten in green pen, has been stuck over a scrap of paper bearing the word answer, like a parody of a clue (we are playing games after all). A Google search for “17 West Center Street Beacon 12508” pulls up a yellow wood-frame house near the Hudson River. Without more context, its significance remains opaque. The same holds for the black-and-white photograph of three women in Garden game, 2019, lopsidedly taped against the wall of one of several cardboard boxes filled with aluminum trays of soil, a Dunkin’ Donuts cup holding a fan of crayons, brightly colored plastic toys, and other childhood miscellanea. It might feel familiar, but it’s only an outline, like viewing someone else’s memory.

— Holly Connolly

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Reference link: https://www.artforum.com/picks/susan-cianciolo-80412