Category: Interview
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Tabita Rezaire: ‘Reclamation allowed me to glow into my blackness, womanhood and queerness’
Tabita Rezaire talks about ‘decolonial healing’, her response to cyber-racism and the distorted representation of black people on the internet, communication technologies from the spiritual world, and empowering artists to have self-respect
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Bharti Kher: ‘In the way a kitchen has many different things cooking at the same time, so does my studio’
Kher talks about the difficulty of being identified as an ‘Indian’ artist, being a procrastinator, and making material things do things they don’t want to
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Peter Hill: ‘I have a love for the solitude of lighthouses at one extreme and the energy of Chicago or Berlin at the other’
The artist talks about his creation of a fictional museum, his current lecture tour, Fake News + Superfictions, and the artists who have influenced him
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Latif Al Ani: ‘I was documenting for the sake of archiving. I never thought Iraq would arrive at what it has today’
The Iraqi photographer considers his photographic preservation of a long-vanished Iraq, his preoccupation with beauty, and the desire to share his country’s pain with viewers
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Ania Dabrowska: ‘By the retelling of archival stories we have the power to articulate new ideas of how we want to formulate our own identities’
Ania Dabrowska (b1973) is a Polish-born artist now living in London. She works with photography, moving image, installation, text and sound, and has a particular interest in the political and creative potency of archives within contemporary culture. She has had…
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Köken Ergun: ‘In Turkey, the image of the soldier has been victimised by Erdoğan’
The Turkish film-maker talks about his 2005 video I, Soldier, and its relevance to the political situation in his country today
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Shirazeh Houshiary: ‘We can’t fix our identity or our borders, the only real border is our skin’
Houshiary talks about evolution, Einstein and shamans, and how her work involves thinking in other dimensions
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John Stezaker: ‘I was trying to create a sort of photographic cubism’
The British artist discusses a series of 1970s collages that launched his career, and which have been brought together for an exhibition in New York
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Nnenna Okore: ‘My work seeks to highlight Earth’s vulnerability and fragility’
Okore’s sculptures are poetic odes to the natural world. But beneath the delicate beauty there lies a pervading tension. She talks about how life and death in the natural world informs her practice
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William Kentridge: ‘One needs sometimes to show the power of the irrational world as a demonstration of the limits of the rational world’
William Kentridge talks about his recent performance of Kurt Schwitters’ sound poem Ursonate, dadaists and interpreting the world
