Category: Video Interview
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Pilvi Takala: Close Watch – Venice Biennale 2022
Close Watch, Takala’s multi-channel video at the Finnish Pavilion, is based on her time working undercover as a security guard in a large shopping centre. As she explains, it explores the concept of how private companies exert control over the…
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Angela Su: Arise: Hong Kong in Venice – Venice Biennale 2022
Su talks about the new age group that tried to levitate the Pentagon, a story that informed her show at Venice, and says a lot of her work is about the interior of the body and physical transformation
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Niamh O’Malley: Gather – Venice Biennale 2022
O’Malley says she wants her Irish Pavilion installation to be a welcoming space, for visitors to ‘feel the power and the height and weight of things’
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Jonathas de Andrade: With the Heart Coming Out of the Mouth – Venice Biennale 2022
Giant ears, a massive inflatable heart and a disembodied head – De Andrade explains why he has filled the Brazilian Pavilion with an odd assortment of body parts
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Sigurður Guðjónsson: Perpetual Motion – Venice Biennale 2022
In the darkness of the Icelandic Pavilion, Sigurður Guðjónsson talks about his monumental video work – a visceral experience, its scale and form resonant with its architectural setting and enhanced by a primal soundtrack
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Mark Francis – video interview: ‘l like to use a grid to convey order and chaos. Both things can reside on the same plane’
Francis discusses the evolution of his subject matter, his techniques, his use of colour, the importance and influence of science and music, and his current shows in Ireland and Italy
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Jasia Reichardt – video interview: ‘It’s not really labour … It’s like making a work of art’
Jasia Reichardt discusses the newly published archive catalogue she has collated and curated over 20 years, celebrating Stefan and Franciszka Themerson, a remarkable couple at the centre of one of London’s most interesting intellectual and creative communities
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Donna Huddleston – video interview: ‘I was thinking of all the works being a double for myself’
Huddleston talks about her beguiling new works on paper, for which she draws on her background in theatre to create figures that she sees as performing within the composition
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Cristina Iglesias – video interview: ‘I always felt I wanted to create places, places to be’
The Spanish artist discusses her fascination with geology and botany, how public sculpture assists in the creation of place, and the importance of remaining alive to nature in urban design
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Tunji Adeniyi-Jones – interview: ‘I want to show composure and a confidence. I don’t want these figures to feel they have anything to prove’
Adeniyi-Jones talks about his new paintings in That Which Binds Us, his first solo show at White Cube Bermondsey
