Category: Video Interview
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Wu Tsang – interview: ‘I’m drawn to stories that have messy politics’
Tsang trains a postcolonial lens on Herman Melville’s 19th-century novel Moby-Dick for her immersive video installation Of Whales and beguiling silent film MOBY DICK; or, The Whale. She talks about the works, staged by TBA21, now on show at Museo…
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Rebecca Fortnum – interview: ‘I’m trying to bring these women back to life by painting them in flesh-like tones’
As Fortnum was at the Henry Moore Institute, installing her exhibition of paintings and drawings of sculptures of women connected to Rodin, she spoke candidly about her belief that the sculptor received a ‘bad press’ and about the slippage between…
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David Mach – interview: ‘I tried to make myself known as an ideas monger’
Before his show Heavy Metal, now on at Pangolin London, we spoke to Mach about what fuels his inclination to work at scale and the importance of necessary extravagance when making art with the stuff of everyday life, from matches…
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Zineb Sedira – interview: ‘It makes sense to include part of my life, part of me, in the work’
Sedira discusses her acclaimed French Pavilion for the 2022 Venice Biennale, as well as how the sea became a leitmotif for transnational identity in Can’t You See the Sea Changing?, her solo exhibition at De Le Warr Pavilion and Dundee Contemporary Arts
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Grace Ndiritu – interview: ‘Museums hold our collective past and they can hold our future’
Ndiritu talks about her show at the Wellcome Collection, where a Zen Buddhism-inspired temple allows visitors to contemplate her tapestries Repair and Restitution, and explains why reshaping the role of museums is so important to her
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Sámi Pavilion (Nordic Countries), Venice Biennale 2022
Sámi artists Anders Sunna, Máret Ánne Sara and Pauliina Feodoroff have transformed the Nordic Pavilion to highlight the continuing struggle against colonialism, discrimination and land possession faced by Europe’s only Indigenous people
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Permindar Kaur – interview: ‘It’s hard to get a balance in the work: an equal amount of threat and an equal amount of softness’
The sculptor talks to us about her playful use of the domestic realm to explore feelings of belonging and cultural identity
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Lubna Chowdhary – interview: ‘Erratic is a useful analogy for a diaspora artist’
With swooping forms and blazing colour, Chowdhary explores the grey areas between east and west, sculpture and architecture, and the functional and the decorative. She talks here about the themes that underpin her work
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Yuki Kihara: Paradise Camp – Venice Biennale 2022
The artist, who is of mixed Japanese and Samoan heritage, talks about showcasing queer rights and revealing the toxic influence of colonialism in her works
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Alberta Whittle: Deep Dive (Pause) Uncoiling Memory – Venice Biennale 2022
The Barbadian-Scottish artist has used sculpture, film and tapestry for her Scotland in Venice presentation. Her aim, she says, is to show that, through self-compassion and collective care, we can battle racism and colonialism
