In Letha Wilson’s sculptures, photographic images (many taken during her forays into the American wilderness) act as transformative skins. As much façade as form, her assemblages involving concrete and metal are physically activated by the scenic views applied to them and conceptually charged by the associations and myths of those distant landscapes.
From Absence: A Conversation with Carlos Herrera
Carlos Herrera’s work does not permit indifference. His intimate installations, sculptures, performances, and photographs reflect on life and death, madness, sexuality, rites of passage, and spirituality as he tries to make the visible and material into the “stuff of memory” and emotion.
Enchanting Traps: A Conversation with Valeska Soares
For over 30 years, Brazilian artist Valeska Soares has used the tools of Minimalism and conceptual artto create sculptures and installations imbued with emotion and humanity, that explore love, intimacy, and desire, loss and longing, memory and history.
Earthly Paradise: A Conversation with Saad Qureshi
With a sensitive and empathetic eye, Saad Qureshi explores the essence of what it is to be human. Seeking out people of all faiths and none, he gathers their stories and weaves them together like silken threads, rendering memories and imaginings into otherworldly sculptural “mindscapes” that give a spatial presence to the narratives that help to make sense of life.
Monumentos vivos: Una Conversación con Alexis Minkiewicz
Nacido en Villa Cañás, Santa Fe, Argentina, el escultor Alexis Minkiewicz transita la urbanidad con una mirada que construye escenarios donde monumentos y estatuas son protagonistas de un recorrido artístico que lo lleva a esculpir a gran escala en materialidades tanto convencionales y académicas como más contemporáneas.
Little Capsules: A Conversation with Jorge Satorre
Working across sculpture, drawing, and installation, Mexican artist Jorge Satorre weaves complex, subversive narratives around a variety of themes, including labor, value, memory, and desire. As these diverse strands become fruitfully entangled, they create unforeseen meanings and serendipitous synchronicities.
Kapwani Kiwanga: Material Equivalence and Exchange
Kapwani Kiwanga’s research-driven sculptures, installations, videos, and performances tie together objects from particular locales, evidence of economic and political power, the global African diaspora, and the history of colonialism to idiosyncratically reread established histories, often focusing on disruptions centered around belief, mythology, and impermanence.
All About Desire: A Conversation with Ghada Amer
Ghada Amer’s sculptures, embroidery paintings, and public garden projects create unsettled narratives of longing and love. Clear-cut definitions and judgments have no place in her work, which is all about ambiguity and paradox. Her recent bronzes are conceived as rectangular, mostly horizontal partitions, folded just enough to allow them to stand upright on the floor.
New Mythologies: A Conversation with Suchitra Mattai
Suchitra Mattai’s multidisciplinary work explores how memory, myth, and oral traditions can be harnessed to unravel received narratives rooted in patriarchal and colonialist systems.
Circulating Energy: A Conversation with Yuko Mohri
Translated from Japanese by Gaku Kondo Yuko Mohri creates kinetic sound installations from reconfigured audio components and found everyday objects—everything from discarded furniture, motors, and rolls of paper to light bulbs and water. Networked assemblages that respond to the context in which they are fabricated, her multisensory environments form unique and changeable energy courses, their
