Category: Video 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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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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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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Kong Ning: ‘Being a witness mentally scarred me’
Multidisciplinary artist and environmental activist Kong Ning is based in Beijing. Born in Heilongjiang province in 1958, she studied law, but, deeply disturbed by the inequities of China’s judicial system and a fierce opponent of the death penalty, she decided…
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George Ridgway: interview
George Ridgway graduated last year from the Glasgow School of Art. His work traverses painting and installation with an intuitive ease as he subtly translates music, movement and the forces of the natural world into paint
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Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2016
Since 1949 New Contemporaries has hand-picked graduate and emerging artists to present them to the public as the rising stars of the art world. Studio International visited the touring exhibition on its opening night at the Institute of Contemporary Arts…
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Kate Fahey: interview
Kate Fahey is concerned with slowing down how we interact with images. In the age of Google, where our consumption of the visual divorces us from context and meaning, Fahey seeks to reappropriate photographs that have become lost or degraded…
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Seungjo Jeong: interview
South Korean artist Seungjo Jeong creates pared-back canvases that explore the relationship between viewer and artist through the almost abstract evocation of objects
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Roger Hiorns – interview: ‘It isn’t enough to put an artwork in the world. You have to think about redesigning the world around the artwork’
Roger Hiorns explains his methods of exploration and excavation, and why he believes art is not so much about making objects as about designing behaviour
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Jiang Dahai: ‘There are universal values shared among artists and scholars around the world’
The Chinese-born artist unfolds his search for abstraction in all art, his pursuit of musicality and why all art should be judged by the same standards regardless of nationality
