Category: Interview
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Nika Neelova – interview: ‘Everything in the world around us is constantly undoing and you can just grasp a moment of it’
The artist talks about how her multilingual upbringing may have shaped her thoughts and her work, her interest in the flow of time through objects, and why her latest show involves silted-up pipes
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Emeka Ogboh – interview: ‘I want listeners to be transported to Lagos. I want them to feel what it is like to be in those spaces’
As his latest show, at the Gropius Bau in Berlin, explores his Igbo heritage, Ogboh explains why he was drawn to work with sound and how his practice has evolved
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Jacqueline de Jong – interview: ‘I never compromise, no way. I could never do it. Not even today’
With the opening of her first major UK solo show in her 60-year career, De Jong talks about her time as part of the revolutionary Situationist International movement, her ever-changing style and her empathy for what is happening in the…
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Catsou Roberts – interview: ‘It is our duty to the NHS to elicit the production of remarkable artwork’
Roberts, the director of Vital Arts, which commissions projects for five London hospitals, talks about the range of artists and work involved and the transformative power of art on the wellbeing of patients and staff
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Phyllis Christopher – interview: ‘We had come out, people were dying, we had nothing to lose, so we just wanted to have the best party’
The photographer talks about her coming of age in 1990s San Francisco, where, despite the Aids crisis, lesbians, in the post-lesbian feminist era, largely wanted to come together, have fun and create visibility
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Adam Jeppesen – interview: ‘I embrace imperfection’
The Danish artist talks about why he left documentary-making to make art, the project that took him from the north pole to Antarctica, and the thoughts behind the work in his latest show, his first solo exhibition in the UK
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Annie Morris – interview: ‘All my work revolves around experiences I’ve had. A lot is based on things I’m not comfortable talking about’
Morris, who has three new shows, at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Frieze Sculpture and Timothy Taylor in London, discusses how personal tragedy and childhood memories feed into her work
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Yoan Capote – interview: ‘When a Cuban looks at the sea, he remembers the isolation and pain of thousands of families’
The artist talks about his new series of large-scale paintings, Requiem, and how his work is influenced by timeless themes such as migration, death and the sea
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Hans Op de Beeck – interview: ‘It’s about suspension of disbelief and how far you can take a spectator into something undeniably fake’
The artist talks about art-making as catharsis and why, for him, it is all about the creation of visual fiction
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Doron Langberg – interview: ‘There’s this rush of empathy and emotion’
As his first London gallery show opens, the Brooklyn-based artist talks intimacy, immediacy and queer subjectivity
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