Tag: installation

Zarina Bhimji: Flagging It Up

Her quietly reflective films and photographs, with their evocative use of colour and light, are things of beauty, but their true depth and meaning are only revealed on slow looking
Saba Farhoudnia: Reflection

Reflecting on violence, particularly against women and minorities, Farhoudnia’s paintings force us to see that the stories depicted in her works concern all of us and that we should not take freedom of choice for granted
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
Hans Op de Beeck – interview: ‘It’s about suspension of disbelief and how far you can take a spectator into something undeniably fake’

The artist talks about art-making as catharsis and why, for him, it is all about the creation of visual fiction
Cathie Pilkington – interview: ‘It’s great to have a title that makes people think’

The artist talks about the importance of democracy in her practice, how she feels she sits – or doesn’t! – within the patriarchal tradition, and how she has a resistance to finalising a work and defining where it begins and…
Prabhakar Pachpute – interview: ‘I juxtapose memories and what is happening in real life’

Prabhakar Pachpute talks about growing up in a coal-mining region in India, and how its associated landscape and characters have become his subject matter
Sara Barker – interview: ‘I tackle sculpture from the position of painting and vice versa’

Glasgow-based Sara Barker talks about how the pandemic has affected her practice and her exhibition, undo the knot, currently on show at CAMPLE LINE
Nicole Schoeni: ‘We wanted to look at the psychological effects of the pandemic and to complement and disrupt the heritage of the house’

Schoeni discusses the challenges of curating an immersive group exhibition in a London townhouse during lockdown
Marguerite Humeau – interview : ‘I think art was born from a will to become eternal, to leave a permanent trace’

Whether she is reconstructing the voice of Cleopatra or creating futuristic elephantine forms, Humeau is, she says, preoccupied with death
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