Passionate and opinionated, a self-described feminist and atheist, Megha Joshi is unapologetic in her work and life, questioning misogynistic beliefs and practices. Her sculptures and installations, made with sacred items such as oil lamp wicks, beads, and incense sticks, often take an ironic turn as ritual function and subject matter collide.
Habitar los límites: Una Conversación con Andrea Nosetti
Realizadora de objetos que transitan los límites entre el adorno decorativo y las piezas de arte, la artista plástica Andrea Nosetti se apoya en el azar para dejarse llevar por sus dictados para construir pequeñas escenas cuasi teatrales o de gabinete de curiosidades.
Nicolò Masiero Sgrinzatto
COMO, ITALY Galleria Ramo A generous maker, Sgrinzatto allows the viewer’s imagination to move ahead of his personal intentions. It is, for instance, unlikely that he ever planned to destroy his creations. Instead, he appears to stress the latency of transformation, so that the speculative dimension contributes narrative tension to overt formality.
Counter Images: A Conversation with Raphaela Vogel
Raphaela Vogel’s practice has evolved like the proverbial rolling snowball. As a student, she became interested in the performative aspects of painting, which led her to video (featuring herself and sometimes her dog as performers), to self-recorded music and what she calls “video sculptures,” as well as to large-scale installations combining all of these elements.
Erwin Wurm
WEST BRETTON, WAKEFIELD, U.K. Yorkshire Sculpture Park In Wurm’s practice, the distortion and disruption of familiar objects can be seen to alter orthodox notions of reality, offering alternative readings with regard to the material objects and spaces that define humankind.
Involvere: A Conversation with Analía Zalazar
The work of Argentinian artist Analía Zalazar is dominated by one characteristic action—the wrapping of objects. With this gesture, she seeks to establish a kind of link that serves to conserve and protect while managing to achieve volume with the most diverse and unlikely materials, from paper to textiles and aluminum foil.
Mutual Transformation: A Conversation with Daniel Steegmann Mangrané
Daniel Steegmann Mangrané does not believe in the autonomy of art. Taking a sensorial, phenomenological, and collaborative approach to sculpture (as well as to film, sound, augmented reality, gardens, and drawing), he views art-making as primarily about experimentation, potential relations, and new alliances, a chance for discovery in which process is more important than the finished object.
Rosemarie Castoro
LLANDUDNO, WALES Mostyn A line of aluminum tape runs across the floor, walls, and ceiling of the space, dividing it in two. Castoro began to make these spatially delimiting pieces after she created a similar line, or crack, to demarcate work and living space in her New York loft.
Maximilian Goldfarb
BUFFALO, NEW YORK The Buffalo Institute for Contemporary Art Each of Goldfarb’s works marked an attempt to depict or reproduce an actual instrument of violence. When I realized that, a shiver crept up my neck—I was looking at an autopsy.
Natalie Ball
NEW YORK Whitney Museum Upending conventional practice, Ball’s seemingly random, unrestrained arrangements and innovative techniques overlay materials and references to childhood and assimilation with Indigenous customs and rituals to present a doubled vision that resists and critiques dominant white culture.
