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.
Rebellious Subjects: A Conversation with Reza Aramesh
Tehran-born, London-based Reza Aramesh describes his choice of subject matter as “necessary for the moment we are in.” Neither protest not political crusade, his figures of anonymous men explore violence in its most banal and insidious forms.
Let It Go: A Conversation with Ryan Schneider
Ryan Schneider, who until recently was best known for his heavily built-up paintings, takes almost the opposite approach to sculpture, following Constantin Brancusi who argued that “one should know how to dig out the being that is within matter.”
Cuestión de piel: Una Conversación con Nadia Guthmann
Nadia Guthmann, artista visual y doctora en biología, establece una conexión entre ambos campos, haciendo que los fundamentos sensibles y racionales se entrelacen orgánicamente. Su producción se compone mayoritariamente de esculturas en mallas de metal y ocasionalmente realiza con ellas instalaciones con o sin movimiento, proyectando las sombras en pantallas traslúcidas.
Object Lessons: Dana Barnes
Entwined grew out of my preoccupation with how nature reasserts itself in abandoned, vacant places. I’m drawn to the way that vines spiral into emptiness, how they fill voids left behind, their tendrils reaching without logic or order.
Perpetual Ungroundedness: A Conversation with Linda Sormin
For 20 years, Linda Sormin has explored fragility, upheaval, migration, survival, and change through ceramic and mixed-media sculptures and site-responsive installations. Her work has always been influenced—at times unwittingly, she says—by her family roots in Thailand, China, and Indonesia.
Thresholds and Traces: A Conversation with Lydia C. Thompson
Lydia C. Thompson’s ceramic and mixed-media sculptures combine architectural form with layered storytelling, exploring the porous, transitional nature of “home” as physical space and social construct. Her hand-built, perforated structures invite reflection on thresholds of movement, vulnerability, and resilience amid gentrification and migration.
Embodied Listening: A Conversation with Marc Vilanova
The work of Spanish visual and sound artist Marc Vilanova occupies the intermediate spaces between art, science, nature, and technology. His sculptures, installations, and performances are designed to “promote active listening to the often-unnoticed voices of the world around us.”
No Hierarchies: A Conversation with Karla Black
Karla Black’s current exhibition at the Kunstraum Dornbirn places a magical art experience in a magical landscape, with the picturesque region near Lake Constance in western Austria serving as an integral backdrop.
Appeasing Ancestral Spirits: A Conversation with Kwoma Artists Matthew Kuarchinj, Tobi Borungai, and Shiva Lynn Burgos
In a ceremony beneath the newly re-installed Kwoma Ceremonial House Ceiling in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Chief Matthew Kuarchinj, Tobi Borungai, and Shiva Lynn Burgos performed a series of rituals to appease and release ancestral spirits within the work.
