Here Is Elsewhere: A Conversation with Johan Muyle

Belgian artist Johan Muyle found his voice 40 years ago with La Modification (1984), an aptly named assemblage sculpture that borrows its title from Michel Butor’s celebrated 1957 novel. Consisting of a recliner attached to ropes and nooses, with a crate suspended between bicycle wheels placed behind, the entire ensemble evokes an instrument of torture or execution.

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Disruptor of Objects: A Conversation with Bharti Kher

Transformation—both material and metaphysical—lies at the heart of Bharti Kher’s career-long project to deconstruct the details of everyday life and rearrange them into more honest, if brutal truths. Like the literary masters of metamorphosis Ovid and Kafka, she moves between certainty and uncertainty in order to construct parables of contemporary life and of the body.

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Giovanni Anselmo: Entering the Work

Giovanni Anselmo’s works are predicated on action. As a result, they always seem to exist in the present moment—dynamic presentations of materials that resist aesthetic resolution, with each encounter constituting a perceptual experience that empowers individual outcomes and discoveries.

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