Category: Interview
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Hulda Guzmán – interview: ‘I feel a little bad for the rest of the natural world, that it can’t laugh’
The Dominican artist Hulda Guzmán talks about the things that inspire her, her father’s influence – and not taking life too seriously
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Ali Cherri – interview: ‘You cannot un-write violence. I am interested in these hidden wounds’
Cherri has tackled a subject that museums would prefer not to bring to public attention – what happens when an artwork is vandalised. Growing up in Lebanon during the civil war, he says, has given him personal experience of dealing…
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Ming Smith – interview: ‘Photography’s the only thing I know’
As Pippy Houldsworth Gallery exhibits her first UK solo show, the pioneering American photographer talks through some of her key images
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Ingrid Pollard – interview: ‘I like to concentrate on that vast history of the world as it has been photographed since 1835’
Pollard first came to prominence as a key figure of the black British art movement of the 1980s. Now, a solo show at the MK Gallery in Milton Keynes looks back over her 40-year career
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Libby Heaney – interview: ‘The point of the work is to destabilise you’
The physicist and artist talks about using her scientific knowledge in her art, how technology can be used to bring people together and form new expressions of collective identity, and her latest work Ent-, now on show in Berlin
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Mark Francis – video interview: ‘l like to use a grid to convey order and chaos. Both things can reside on the same plane’
Francis discusses the evolution of his subject matter, his techniques, his use of colour, the importance and influence of science and music, and his current shows in Ireland and Italy
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Jasmina Cibic – interview: ‘I’m drawn towards the political psychology and unconsciousness of states’
Cibic talks about the ideas, people and moments in history that inspire her artistic practice dealing with nation-building and soft power
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Jasia Reichardt – video interview: ‘It’s not really labour … It’s like making a work of art’
Jasia Reichardt discusses the newly published archive catalogue she has collated and curated over 20 years, celebrating Stefan and Franciszka Themerson, a remarkable couple at the centre of one of London’s most interesting intellectual and creative communities
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Vlatka Horvat – interview: ‘I’m interested in trying to get beyond the boundaries of the image’
During the lockdown last year, Horvat decided to go on daily walks around her east London neighbourhood. She explains how the photographs she took turned into a new project, now on show at PEER London
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Joan Semmel – interview: ‘I was simply not excluding those who did not conform to any preconceived notions of beauty’
With a retrospective at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts covering 60 years of work, from her early abstracts to her nude self-portraits, Semmel looks back at her career and explains why she chooses to paint her own body…
