Category: Interview
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Brent Wadden: ‘I love a good happy accident. The mistakes end up being integral to each piece’
The artist talks about Sympathetic Resonance, his new show at Pace, why he refers to his weaving as painting, and trawling websites daily in search of secondhand yarn
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Martin Creed: ‘You’re at the mercy of these feelings you don’t have any control over’
Creed spoke to us at the opening of his new show, Toast, which includes a dancing sock, a painting that moves in and out of the room and a troupe of singers, along with new drawings, videos, paintings, textiles and…
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Christo: ‘Art is useless’
Famed for wrapping massive structures, great bodies of water and chunks of coastline as well as monumental sculptures built from oil drums, Christo, who collaborated with his wife Jeanne-Claude until her death in 2009 – and still talks about her…
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Funda Gül Özcan: ‘I was like a sponge to soak up their tears’
Özcan talks about her recent installation at a bar in Graz, extraterrestrials, the Kosovo war, artworks that function like pop songs and why men confide in her
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Julie Greve: ‘I don’t like shooting models. They are taught so quickly to pose’
The recent art-school graduate, who was selected to photograph this season’s campaign for standout British fashion label JW Anderson, discusses her approach to commercial projects and the importance of forming a rapport with her subjects
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Pepe López: ‘When it comes to exile, we keep all memories in the same place in the heart’
The Venezuelan artist recounts packing a life into a suitcase, the potency of objects in evoking the past, and the will to overcome loss through transformation
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Andreas Lolis: ‘I’m not working with marble, I’m conversing with it’
Lolis talks about why he uses marble to sculpt bin bags, wooden crates and other mundane items, in reference to homelessness, the refugee crisis and Greece’s changing society
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Artes Mundi 8 Prize and Exhibition
The artists shortlisted for Artes Mundi 8 aim to stir our consciences on everything from abuse of the Earth’s resources to the creep of surveillance and the steel industry’s impact. We talk to two of them, Anna Boghiguian and Otobong…
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Anna Boghiguian, interview, Artes Mundi 8
Anna Boghiguian talks about her travels and research for A Meteor Fell from the Sky, the founding of India’s first steel business, Tata Steel, and how this material is currently being manipulated by assorted superpowers to influence global economies and…
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Otobong Nkanga, interview, Artes Mundi 8
Otobong Nkanga talks about her inspirations for the works on show at Artes Mundi 8, and her enduring preoccupations with the reciprocity or interconnectedness of emotion and action around the world
