Category: Interview
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Nimrod Vardi and Claudel Goy – interview: ‘We want to explore what it means to rethink the history of digital arts in the UK and worldwide’
The co-directors of arebyte, a charitable organisation specialising in digital art, talk about being based in London’s new cultural hub, nurturing young and upcoming artists, and the current show by Zach Blas
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Cat Dunn – interview: ‘I wanted artists who understood the traumas associated with political aspects of dual identity, but could still express aspects of joy’
The curator of Crafted Selves: The Unfinished Conversation, at St Andrews Museum in Scotland, talks about how she chose the 13 artists in the show, all of whom explore dual identity in their work, whether that be to do with…
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Alia Farid: ‘The vessel shapes speak of the different cultural and trade networks in the Arabian and Gulf peninsula’
The industrialisation of water infrastructure and its damaging environmental impacts underpin Alia Farid’s work. At the opening of Artes Mundi 10, she talks about hervast sculptures in the shape of water vessels that speak of different trades, cultures and eras
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Rushdi Anwar: ‘My work is a reflection on the hypocrisy of politics and politicians’
At the opening of Artes Mundi 10, Anwar, a Kurdish-born artist who now divides his time between Thailand and Australia, discusses his work’s articulation of the violence and degradation brought about by divisive ideologies and colonialism
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Carolina Caycedo: ‘There are struggles that are connected worldwide. Hopefully my work becomes a bridge between these struggles’
At the opening of Artes Mundi 10, Caycedo talks about her work exposing environmental abuses, racial injustice and celebrating acts of feminist and indigenous resistance
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Olga Grotova – interview: ‘I started to think how soil and plants are sometimes the only witnesses’
In her east London studio, Olga Grotova talks about the ‘choreographic’ process and inspiration for dense, mysterious works bearing the imprints of plants and limbs, layered with soil and pigments to reveal hidden narratives and tales of trauma
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El Anatsui – interview: ‘My inspiration comes from things people have used – there are so many endless delights’
As his huge installation begins at Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall this month, the artist talks about African identity, authenticity and being inspired by your own environment
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Kim Conaty – interview: ‘Ruth Asawa pursued drawing throughout her life, the sculpture coming from it, wire the equivalent of line’
Conaty, the Whitney Museum’s curator of prints and drawings, explains what led her to organise a show of Asawa’s drawings rather than the wire sculptures for which she is famed
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Bartosz Beda: interview: ‘In chaos, there is always some kind of order’
Beda, whose solo show Echoes of Seasons is at the Art Gallery of Collin College in Plano, Texas, talks about his process, the thoughts behind his current works – and how he is influenced by his eastern European background
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Avery Singer – interview: ‘Art got me through some really dark places and still does’
Singer was 14 on 9/11 and what she witnessed took its toll on her mental health. Her experience of that day has informed Free Fall, her ambitious solo exhibition at Hauser & Wirth London, which considers the power of memory…
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