Category: Interview
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Sofia Borges: ‘Photography can be used as a tool to mould our sense of reality’
The artist subverts photography, as she strives to ‘rub out meaning’. Instead, she explains, she is interested in the things that are lost, denied and corrupted in the transposition from object into image, and from image into reality, and from…
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Zhao Zhao: ‘You cannot separate art from politics’
A prominent member of the post-1980s generation of Chinese artists and a former assistant of Ai Wewei, the Beijing artist talks about his visually stunning, anti-authoritarian and provocative work. Lilly Wei talked to the artist in his Beijing studio in…
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Elpida Hadzi-Vasileva: ‘I am driven by making the impossible possible’
The artist, who makes beautiful works of art using waste products from the meat industry talks about God, gastroenterology and pigs’ guts
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Karen Guthrie: ‘Family history is a hidden pain with lots of people. A film can bring those things to the surface’
The film-maker talks about her incredibly successful and amazingly raw and personal documentary of her family history, The Closer We Get
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Douglas Kotwall: ‘We want to incubate young, contemporary Chinese artists and curators’
Kotwall, a senior member of the K11 Art Foundation, talks about the ethos and goals of the organisation, which seeks to promote young Chinese artists, open up cross-cultural dialogues, and make art more accessible to the Chinese public
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Guan Xiao: ‘I am learning about humour. It is a precious quality’
The artist talks about how the digital revolution has influenced her work, the roles of text and humour, and her dislike of being labelled
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Amy Franceschini: ‘It’s kind of simple: I want to be alive and I want to breathe’
The artist talks about her upbringing in the breadbasket of America, and how this taught her about the interplay of power and politics and the importance of farming and our environment
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Sean Scully: ‘The stripe can do anything in any direction, and since it is so common, it corresponds to everything around us’
The abstract artist talks about why he changed his style so radically in the 1980s, the influence of Ireland, the UK and the US on his work, and why he is so popular in China
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Conrad Shawcross: ‘It’s created a skin for the surface of this building’
The artist explains his use of the moiré effect in designing an optical cloak for a tall industrial building on the Greenwich Peninsula in south-east London
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Clare Jarrett: ‘It’s almost as though the work is already there somewhere and just wants to come out’
The Norwich-based artist talks about her recent residency at the Barbershop in Norwich, and her practice
