Category: Video Interview

Krištof Kintera – interview: ‘Humour helps us to survive’

Unable to install The End of Fun! at Ikon in Birmingham because of Covid-19 travel restrictions, Kintera spoke to Studio International via Zoom from his studio in the Czech Republic
A personal message: Anita Glesta

Brooklyn-based artist Anita Glesta sends a video message from her temporary studio in upstate New York. “I am reading about, and working on, what it means when a foreign substance … enters the body, and the fragility of being human”
Oluwole Omofemi – interview: ‘In my paintings, I try to tell the black community to embrace their beauty, to embrace their colour’

The Nigerian artist talks about how he uses hair – specifically the afro – as a metaphor for freedom and power, and a symbol of identity
Ziba Ardalan – interview: ‘Parasol has been 16 years of go-go … Maybe it’s time to do something else’

Ardalan talks about her decision to close Parasol unit, and its achievements in London over the last 16 years
Jake Wood-Evans – interview: ‘I don’t think you can make a successful painting unless you are bold and commit to the action of taking away and risking something’

Taking great baroque altarpieces as his starting point, Jake Wood-Evans marks out his composition, applies his paint and then starts to move and remove it, leaving abstract traces, like the passing of time
Denzil Forrester – interview: ‘I needed that dark space to bring out that energy… you have to give yourself over to it’

Studio International spoke with Forrester at the opening of Itchin & Scratchin, his first major solo institutional show, at Nottingham Contemporary
Christine Rebet– interview: ‘Animation is perfect for critique: it is a minor medium, it’s not film; like drawing is not painting’

Studio International spoke to Rebet at the opening of Time Levitation, her first solo show in the UK, at Parasol unit, London
Darren Waterston – interview: ‘My normal studio practice is quite monastic … in so many ways I feel this (Filthy Lucre) is a shared collaboration’

Studio International spoke to Waterston ahead of the opening of his installation Filthy Lucre: Whistler’s Peacock Room Reimagined, at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Paul Mpagi Sepuya – interview: ‘I’m not making tricky pictures. There’s nothing that’s composed that’s meant to look like something else’

While a quest to understand the myriad undefined potentials of queer social spaces is one factor behind Paul Mpagi Sepuya’s deconstruction of his portraits, primarily he seeks to interrogate the act of photography itself
Leo Villarreal – interview: ‘It was interesting to connect to the universal power of light. As humans we really respond to these things’

American artist Leo Villareal talks about his first solo show at Pace, London, and his latest public project, involving 15 major bridges on the Thames