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
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.
