Category: Interview
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Linda Stupart: ‘I’m interested in thinking about a world without men’
The writer, sculptor and performance artist talks about the power of crystals, witchcraft and using sci-fi as a tool to write queer time and imagine queer futures
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David Brian Smith: ‘My cause is to fight for the plight of the English countryside’
The painter’s pop-coloured vision of the English countryside belies a sad truth, but as Smith demonstrates, bitterness can be channelled into something meaningful
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Sheida Soleimani: ‘Does someone really want to buy an image of an executed woman and hang it in their home?’
Surrounded by her neon memorials to women killed in Iran, Soleimani discusses the state-sanctioned misogyny and human rights abuses there, and how she is trying to make people in the west aware of what is going on
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Ed Webb-Ingall: ‘I am a product of lesbian history and a child of section 28’
The video-maker talks about working with communities, his current work, We Have Rather Been Invaded, about section 28, which prohibited schools from promoting homosexuality – and the difference between being a parasite and a Trojan horse
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Titus Kaphar: ‘My subconscious mind had created a fiction that masqueraded as a memory’
For his current exhibition at Jack Shainman Gallery in New York, Titus Kaphar looks to historical portraiture, and imagery from the criminal justice system in his examination of how history is recorded
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Aki Sasamoto: ‘I enjoy how much I can push meaning with the wrong answers’
New York-based performance artist Aki Sasamoto has a tendency to speak entirely in metaphor, sit in abstraction for hours, and mark her responses with a small question at the end: No? She asks, smiling. As though everything, at all times,…
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Maria Nepomuceno: ‘I want to create a place where people can be suspended in time’
The Brazilian artist talks about her fascination with hammocks, her novel way of amalgamating painting and sculpture, and the power of ancestral connections
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Hedy Ritterman: ‘My motivation was to confront mortality, identity and loss, with memory’
Ritterman talks about how her current exhibition, which includes more than 700 of her late husband’s possessions, helped her come to terms with his death, and how she has conflated traditional Jewish mourning with her own personal version
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Susannah Stark: ‘I like to create something that bears the trace of multiple worlds’
The artists talks about cultural memories, Spolia, swamps and Icelandic necropants
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Hugo McCloud: ‘I respect the beauty in the things that are overlooked’
The emerging artist Hugo McCloud, whose layered abstract paintings concentrate on process and material, talks about his second solo show in New York
