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CULTURED 95 23 24 25 Just ahead of her show at the ICA London this April, Los Angeles-based artist Martine Syms will debut new work in her hometown at the just-opened U.S. outpost of Zurich's Karma International. "COM PORT MENT" is an installation of stills and text taken from a recent suite of video works addressing blackness. March 5-April 9, karmainternational.org Don't let the name fool you. Minnesota Street Project is a new art incubator based in San Francisco's Dogpatch District. Adopting the start-up culture of Silicon Valley, the 100,000-square-foot campus will house exhibitions, lectures and programs in addition to private studios reserved for working artists. Open to the public, the project funded by collectors Andy and Deborah Rappaport hopes to provide an alternative art space worthy of the forward-thinking city. minnesotastreetproject.com Among the many objects created by 76-year-old Italian design maverick GAETANO PESCE are the poured urethane works he refers to as "skins." "I've been making these since the '70s, drawing on material in a way that's reflective of our time," says Pesce. "I believe that the future is feminine and some of the skins are about the capacity of women to give life and to mother all human beings." COURTESY ©MARTINE SYMS, KARMA INTERNATIONAL; ©GAETANO PESCE; MINNESOTA STREET PROJECT