Category: Interview
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Alexander Tovborg – interview: ‘If you jump, you don’t necessarily come back down’
The Danish artist mixes his paint with holy water. Here, he talks religion, irony and bringing mystery back into art
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Esther Pearl Watson – interview: ‘I really search out moments of awkward humour’
The Los Angeles-based painter presents an offbeat world that reflects on a distinctly American kind of idealism
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AlanJames Burns: ‘I’m embedding the cave with an assumed consciousness that is Mother Earth’
Burns guides us around the cave where his latest installation is taking place and explains that, historically, caves have played a vital role in the simultaneous evolution of consciousness and creativity
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Roger Palmer – interview: ‘I have always treated photography as a form of drawing’
Following an exhibition based on Robinson Crusoe and a new book of photographs of South Africa’s disused railway lines, Palmer’s latest projects are on Irish independence and Russia’s Kronstadt Mutiny. He explains how he chooses his subjects
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Rachel Howard – interview: ‘I like to contradict myself, trip myself up’
The artist talks about her interest in madness and the edge of things and the five large-scale paintings in her show l’Appel du Vide, which opens this month at Blain Southern in New York
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Nicoline van Harskamp – interview: ‘Once you start thinking about names as language, people get very upset or very excited’
Van Harskamp is a woman obsessed by language. Here she talks about people’s names, what she calls “linguistic biographies” and how languages evolve as people from different places speak them
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Sammy Baloji – interview: ‘I’m not interested in colonialism as a thing of the past, but in the continuation of that system’
The Brussels-based Congolese artist talks about the past and present of colonialism and mineral extraction in the context of his recent exhibition at Salzburg’s Stadtgalerie Museumspavillon, Salzburg Summer Academy
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Sohrab Hura – interview: ‘The only thing I can take responsibility for is my own relationship with the world’
The photographer talks about his new book, Coast, and his aim of sucking viewers in with a narrative and then taking them to a point of incoherence so that they look at things anew
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Michael Landy – interview: ‘The projects no longer exist, but they are mapped on to the Australian psyche’
The sociologically inclined Landy is creating an exhibition marking the 50th anniversary of the Kaldor Public Art Projects. He discusses the challenges of reviving archival ghosts, his enduring fascination with artistic failures, and Kaldor’s doggedness in realising his ambitious scheme
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Bertille Bak – interview: ‘The world of art is a territory capable of giving space to artists who care about humanity’
At the Merz Foundation in Turin, on the occasion of its third art prize, Bertille Bak reflects on a Romany community living on the periphery in Paris
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