Category: Interview
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Marina Tabassum – interview: ‘Architecture is my life and my lifestyle, everything together’
The award-winning Bangladeshi architect behind this year’s Serpentine Pavilion on why she has shunned ‘flashy buildings with instant appeal’ and instead built a mosque and housing for refugees
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Rijksakademie Open Studios: Nora Aurrekoetxea, AYO and Eniwaye Oluwaseyi
At the Rijksakademie’s annual Open Studios event during Amsterdam Art Week, we spoke to three artists about the work they have produced during their residency
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Nora Aurrekoetxea – interview: Rijksakademie Open Studios
Nora Aurrekoetxea focuses on her home in Amsterdam, disorienting domestic architecture to ask us to contemplate the way it shapes us and ingrains itself in our bodies and psychology
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Eniwaye Oluwaseyi – interview: Rijksakademie Open Studios
Eniwaye Oluwaseyi paints figures, including himself, friends and members of his family, within compositions that explore the transience of identity
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AYO – interview: Rijksakademie Open Studios
AYO reflects on her upbringing and ancestry in Uganda from her current position as a resident of the Netherlands, using sculpture, sound and performance to create an in-between space of ambiguous, embodied translation
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Kiki Smith – interview: ‘Artists are always trying to reveal themselves and remain hidden at the same time’
Known for her tapestries, body parts and folkloric motifs, Kiki Smith talks about meaning, process, and why it’s important that a work should have enough in it to take care of itself
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Jonathan Baldock – interview: ‘Weird is a word that’s often used to describe me. I like the use of that word, I’m reclaiming it and giving it power’
As a Noah’s ark of his non-binary stuffed toys goes on show at Jupiter Artland, the artist talks about growing up gay in the 1980s, being working-class in the elite art world, and why experiencing art in person, in galleries…
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Christopher Le Brun & Charlotte Verity – interview: ‘There is such a thing as too much dialogue’
To coincide with a rare joint exhibition now on view at The Gallery at Windsor in Florida, the artists consider the limitless possibilities of paint, their resistance to genre boundaries and the importance of keeping a harmonious distance between one…
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Lina Lapelytė – interview: ‘Between this group of performers, what we share is the virtuosity of listening’
Perhaps best known for her eco-opera Sun & Sea (Marina), Lapelytė discusses her approach to improvisation and collaboration, the joy of interacting with architecture and the virtuosity of listening and her new installation at The Cosmic House, London
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Delaine Le Bas – interview: ‘People still have expectations about what I should or shouldn’t be doing’
From the heart of her installation at the White House in east London, the Romany artist talks about her inspirations, her processes, and how she seeks to deconstruct the stereotypes, language and images that are used to exclude Gypsy, Roma…
