Category: Interview
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Nguyen Trinh Thi – interview: ‘I want to unpick the way we look at things’
The Vietnamese film-maker talks about documenting female spirits, regional journalism and the ecological destruction of Vietnam’s heartlands
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Eva van Tongeren – interview: ‘When Thomas writes about his crime so beautifully, the crime is disguised by beauty’
Corresponding with a jailed paedophile led Van Tongeren to collaborate with him to make a film. She discusses their relationship and the moral and ethical implications of working with someone who has committed such a heinous crime
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Joseph Hillier – video interview: ‘Figurative sculpture in a public space presents a real opportunity to stir something in people’
Sculptor Joseph Hillier talks about his most ambitious project to date, its design, and what it takes to construct a bronze that weighs 9.5 tonnes
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Phil Collins – interview: the artist who brought a statue of Engels from Ukraine to Manchester
The artist talks about his latest exhibition, Ceremony, which documents the statue’s journey, and explains why Engels has such relevance in contemporary Britain
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Daria Martin – interview: ‘Most people can relate to the feeling of being in exile’
The 2018 Jarman Award-winner talks about Franz Kafka, mirror-touch synaesthesia and her film Tonight the World, which involved curating her grandmother’s dreams
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Betty Yu: ‘Wherever you are, there are folks fighting for their lives’
New York-based artist Betty Yu talks about the gentrification of her neighbourhood in Brooklyn and what galleries can do to help
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Ceal Floyer
Ceal Floyer’s subversion of everyday objects continues her meditation on materiality in private and public space
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Jorge Pardo: ‘There’s a lot of No in conceptual art. I’m interested in Yes and More’
Pardo and his team have transformed a tired French hotel in Arles into a work of art, designing and making a million handmade tiles, almost every piece of furniture and hundreds of his signature light fittings
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Christine Ay Tjoe: ‘I will always treat every medium as paper and pencil’
For her first solo exhibition in London, the Indonesian artist presents a group of intricately layered paintings and drawings that call on the contrasting environments of her home city of Bandung
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Gustavo Pérez Monzón: ‘Interests, obsessions and people keep appearing in my life’
The Cuban artist discusses his return to production, a fascination with the systems of arcane sciences and why teaching and practice are born of the same spirit of enquiry
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