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.
Historias talladas en madera: Una Conversación con Aimé Pastorino
Nacida en El Bolsón, Río Negro, Argentina, la artista y docente universitaria Aimé Pastorino desarrolla un trabajo donde la memoria emotiva invade cada una de sus piezas, creando escenarios donde la intimidad de un hogar logra dar cuenta de un sentir social, de una época.
Pushing into New Territory: A Conversation with Juliana Cerqueira Leite
Juliana Cerqueira Leite’s large-scale, tactile sculptures occupy a place of possibility between abstraction and figuration, exploring the parameters and constraints of the human body.
All Connected: A Conversation with Archie Moore
Set within a pool of water in the center of the room, a massive table holds countless reams of official documents—mainly coroner’s reports of Indigenous deaths in custody—that form a city of white paper stacks, crudely lined with black marker redactions.
Registros de estados emocionales: Una Conversación con Mariana Sissia
Nacida en Ramallo, Buenos Aires, la artista plástica Mariana Sissia, toma al dibujo en grafito sobre papel como el motor propulsor, fundamento creativo, de toda su búsqueda artística.
Ogwado Joachim: A Synthetic Form of Us
Recipient of the 2023 Innovator Award Ogwado Joachim, who lives and works in Uganda’s capital city of Kampala, has built a vibrant and community-spirited body of work in public spaces, using single-use plastics as his material of choice.
Expanded Collage: A Conversation with Laura Aldridge
Laura Aldridge builds colorful, multisensory environments infused with an atmosphere of freedom and play, and ripe with potential. In her work, textiles, ceramics, glass, and found objects come together to invite myriad interpretations and emotional responses.
The Domestic Grotesque: A Conversation with Kate Stone
Brooklyn-based Kate Stone constructs familiar, yet uncanny environments on the threshold between interior and exterior, the real and the supernatural, architecture and the body.
