Buenos Aires-based Jessica Trosman began her career in fashion design, launching the brand Trosmanchurba with Martín Churba in 1997 and her eponymous brand in 2002. Her fashion practice took her around the world, especially Japan, and work in her textile laboratory generated prestigious collaborations with haute couture houses such as Chanel and Rick Owens.
Transitando paisajes absurdos: Una Conversación con Eliana Heredia
La artista visual Eliana Heredia, oriunda de Buenos Aires, cursó estudios en el Instituto Universitario Nacional de Arte (IUNA) y se graduó como Profesora Nacional de Escultura en el año 2000. Estudió en la Universität der Künste en Berlín (UDK), donde obtuvo en el año 2011 un máster en Artes.
Passing Through: A Conversation with Kateřina Vincourová
“Skin Care,” Kateřina Vincourová’s current exhibition at Galerie Rudolfinum in Prague, features recent works along with new site-specific installations. As the Czech artist explains, “I build ‘cages’ and try to capture echoes of my thoughts in them.”
Shared Landscapes: A Conversation with Sarah Crowner
Etel Adnan’s large-scale ceramic mural Untitled (2023) debuted alongside an extensive presentation of her work in the solo exhibition “Painting into Space” (2023–24) at The Bass Museum in Miami. The spectacular work, created posthumously from a 2020 drawing, features vibrant geometric fields of color.
Proving a Different Rule: A Conversation with Jesse Darling
Jesse Darling, recently returned to the U.K. after living in Berlin and now teaching at Oxford’s Ruskin School of Art, uses unorthodox combinations of everyday materials and found objects to endow his assemblages and installations with potent lyricism and sociopolitical critique.
Organic Formations: A Conversation with Ángel Bados
Combining materials that range from cardboard and textiles to bronze and found objects, Ángel Bados’s sculptures produce fascinating contrasts of form, color, texture, and mood. An artist and educator who began his career in the 1970s working in installation art, Bados changed direction in 1983 after moving to Bilbao, where he played a key role
Esculturas pictóricas: Una Conversación con Mondongo
Mondongo se presenta como un grupo de artistas argentinos que trabajan colectivamente desde 1999, intentando desenfocar la noción de autoría. De la mano de Juliana Laffitte y Manuel Mendanha, desarrollan series de pinturas en alto relieve donde se abordan temas como el poder, el trabajo, la economía, la sexualidad, a través del uso de materialidades
Disparate Realities: A Conversation with Monira Al Qadiri
By combining personal experience, perspectives on the history and culture of the Persian Gulf region, and investigations into the many tentacles of the petrochemical industry, Berlin-based Kuwaiti artist Monira Al Qadiri produces works that impel us to contend with our ongoing relationship to and dependence on crude oil.
The Agency of Things: A Conversation with Juan Ortiz-Apuy
The human hand’s ability to touch, display, gesture, and manipulate materials forms the core of Coming to Grips, Juan Ortiz-Apuy’s current installation at YYZ Artists’ Outlet in Toronto.
Fragile Times: A Conversation with Nataliya Zuban
Though Nataliya Zuban is steeped in the traditional ceramic production of her native town of Opishnia (known as the ceramic capital of Ukraine), she applies her deep understanding of material and process in strikingly unconventional ways as a window into natural processes.
