Category: Interview
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Lubna Chowdhary – interview: ‘Erratic is a useful analogy for a diaspora artist’
With swooping forms and blazing colour, Chowdhary explores the grey areas between east and west, sculpture and architecture, and the functional and the decorative. She talks here about the themes that underpin her work
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Céline Condorelli – interview: ‘The histories of work are really opened up in my work so that things are voiced and expanded’
The architecturally trained artist talks about her new show at Edinburgh’s Talbot Rice Gallery, and looking at the constructed nature of labour and leisure, as well as value
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Mahmoud Khaled – interview: ‘It’s a memorial dedicated to the people who cannot sleep’
As he exhibits two large-scale works in London, the Egyptian artist talks about creating museums, heteronormative male privilege – and Hugh Hefner’s bed
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Yuki Kihara: Paradise Camp – Venice Biennale 2022
The artist, who is of mixed Japanese and Samoan heritage, talks about showcasing queer rights and revealing the toxic influence of colonialism in her works
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AA Bronson – interview: ‘Suddenly, we were artists’
The pioneering artist, publisher and member of the groundbreaking trio General Idea talks about artists’ books, communes and posterity, the retrospective of the group now on at the National Gallery of Canada and ‘the book of a lifetime’ that accompanies…
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Alberta Whittle: Deep Dive (Pause) Uncoiling Memory – Venice Biennale 2022
The Barbadian-Scottish artist has used sculpture, film and tapestry for her Scotland in Venice presentation. Her aim, she says, is to show that, through self-compassion and collective care, we can battle racism and colonialism
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Jacquiline Creswell – interview: ‘When I first sited art in Salisbury Cathedral, I was accused of turning it into a theme park’
When Creswell joined Salisbury Cathedral as arts curator, she was verbally and physically abused. As she explains, it was her first challenge, but not her last. Here, she talks about bringing world-class art to the cathedral in her 12 years…
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Pilvi Takala: Close Watch – Venice Biennale 2022
Close Watch, Takala’s multi-channel video at the Finnish Pavilion, is based on her time working undercover as a security guard in a large shopping centre. As she explains, it explores the concept of how private companies exert control over the…
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Angela Su: Arise: Hong Kong in Venice – Venice Biennale 2022
Su talks about the new age group that tried to levitate the Pentagon, a story that informed her show at Venice, and says a lot of her work is about the interior of the body and physical transformation
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Rachael Louise Bailey – interview: ‘It’s good to work with something that stirs you’
From the synthetic detritus of the oyster industry washed up on the Kent coast and the organic softness of sheep’s fleece, Bailey conjures up fascinating work. She explains what motivates her and how she became obsessed by these two very…
