Tina Rivers Ryan

THOUGH THE OUTCOME of the 2024 US presidential election has yet to be determined as I write these words, it is hard to imagine any result that does not lead to considerable chaos. It may be useful for those of us who are in America to gain some perspective on our situation by looking beyond our shores. This issue of Artforum provides ample opportunity to do so, beginning with Hung Duong’s feature essay, which describes the “restless volatility” that has enveloped Indonesia in the wake of the February election of Prabowo Subianto. Duong goes on to examine how artists Ade Darmawan and Timoteus Anggawan Kusno are “delving into Indonesian history to shine a light on the manipulation of memory and archives that’s happening before our eyes.” In another feature essay, Percy Zvomuya considers two exhibitions that amount to a “moment of reckoning” for Switzerland: “Remembering: Geneva in the Colonial World,” now on view at the Musée d’Ethnographie de Genève, and “Colonial – Switzerland’s