Tag: human condition
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Sutapa Biswas – interview: ‘I felt questioning established systems of knowledge and power was as vital as breathing’
Sutapa Biswas talks about her lifelong quest to decolonialise British art history, and about her two forthcoming exhibitions
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Jean David Nkot – interview: ‘I want to show that even if every day is hard, it is worth being alive’
The artist talks about the development of his practice, and how he uses three distinct layers to add levels of meaning and interpretation to his human and territorial portraits
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Maria Lassnig
Concerned with the fundamental problem of the location of the body, both on canvas and in the world, the Austrian artist’s self-portraits span genre and interrogate the notion of self-representation and the limitations of painting
