Category: Interview
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When the Heavens Meet the Earth
Showcasing works from Robert Devereux’s Sina Jina African art collection, this small but dense exhibition reveals the breadth and quality of artistic output from the world’s second largest continent
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Chto Delat: ‘Before you can recognise the light, you have to recognise the darkness’
Dmitry Vilensky and Olga Egorova of the Russian collective Chto Delat talk about their latest exhibition, On the Possibility of Light, at KOW in Berlin, and how they hope to foster debate through their engagement with political struggles
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Toshiyuki Inoko: ‘We are exploring the ways in which the relationships between people can be changed through art’
The founder of teamLab, an interdisciplinary group of ‘ultra-technologists’, explains how digital technology can expand art and remove the barriers between the work and the viewer
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Tara Donovan: ‘I’m interested in exploring the moment where the conditional relationship of part to whole breaks down’
The artist explains that, although her latest work, Compositions (Cards), may seem very different from her earlier, large-scale floor-based installations, it springs from the same desire to play with perceptual capacities
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Yuko Mohri: ‘I’m very curious about organic ecosystems’
The Japanese artist Yuko Mohri’s exhibition at White Rainbow is titled Moré Moré [Leaky], and follows recent exhibitions in Taiwan, Japan and the US. Winner of the 2015 Grand Prix Nissan Art Award, Mohri undertook two residencies in London in…
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Vera Möller: ‘My father thought going to art school was like wanting to become a communist’
The German-born artist explains why she first studied biology rather than art, how her scientific background informs her work, her love of the Great Barrier Reef, and why she is moving away from painting painstaking details of imaginary species
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Thomas Hirschhorn: ‘The Gramsci Monument, like all monuments, is made for eternity’
The artist talks about his commitment to art in public spaces, describes how the Gramsci Monument in New York evolved with the help of local people, and explains his belief in the ‘unshared authorship’ of art
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Laura Oldfield Ford: ‘I map ruptures, such as the London riots’
Oldfield Ford spends a lot of time walking through the capital’s streets and, from the fanzine she began in 2005 to her current exhibition, Alpha/Isis/Eden, her work is all about change, the rich pushing out the poor. The artist’s job,…
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Candida Powell-Williams: ‘Each object becomes more than just the narrative – it becomes this opportunity to interact’
The artist shows us round her immersive installation, exploring the fetishism of anthropological objects
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Mai-Thu Perret: ‘I had this urge to portray these female warriors’
The multi-disciplinary artist talks about her continuing fictional narrative The Crystal Frontier, her obsession with an all-female Kurdish militia fighting in Syria, and early-20th-century feminist fiction
