Peter Buggenhout sees all the “rubble” of our spoiled world as salvageable, remaking glass, plastic, stone, steel, and dust into the flesh and bones of unearthly sculptures born of defunct and abandoned stuff long dissolved into uselessness.
Where Things Intertwine: A Conversation with Shilpa Gupta
Shilpa Gupta explains art as a means of shifting and reshaping reality, manipulating it to excavate and introduce new, very different perspectives that encourage us to rethink the patterns and possibilities shaping our lives. The visual, in her hands, becomes an antidote, an intellectual attack even, on the inertia of acceptance and complacency.
Object Lessons: Yto Barrada
It all started with the holes in the wall. The courtyard walls at MoMA PS1 are cement, with small, structural holes for the wind to come through. And you can peek through them. I have made a lot of photographs of people looking into holes in walls—I can think of one in Chile and one
Una aventura energética: Una Conversación con Alicia Herrero
Dueña de una trayectoria destacable como artista plástica, la obra de Alicia Herrero se sostuvo vigente por décadas combinando el abordaje material y estético de distintos enfoques artísticos, con una profunda reflexión sobre temáticas de índole social y cultural.
The Truth of Everydayness: A Conversation with Claire Barclay
Claire Barclay approaches her installation-based work with a rigorous and playful eye. Looking askance at things, she turns quotidian objects into something else—useless, without any obvious function, but imbued with an emotive complexity that allows for physical and psychological effects just when we least expect them.
Boundary Crossing: A Conversation with Yinka Shonibare
“Suspended States,” Yinka Shonibare’s current show at the Serpentine and first solo exhibition in London in over 20 years, acts as a potent reminder of the legacies of colonial power, conflict, and displacement.
Mutaciones: Una Conversación con Ailén Ibarra
Profesora en Artes Plásticas y Licenciada en Artes Plásticas con especialización en Cerámica y Escultura (ambas carreras desarrolladas en la Universidad Nacional de La Plata), la joven artista visual Ailén Ibarra, transita una prometedora carrera, indagando en el campo de la escultura, las instalaciones y la video performance.
In the Same Boat: A Conversation with Romuald Hazoumè
A master of appropriation and transformation, Romuald Hazoumè uses found materials from his native Benin and beyond, with particular emphasis on plastic gasoline containers. In his sculptures and installations, these ordinary objects become pointed indictments of what he has called “Coca Cola culture,” a global plague of exploitation, division, corruption, desire, and conflict.
Connections Beyond the Tangible: A Conversation with Otobong Nkanga
For Otobong Nkanga, human life is inextricably connected to the natural world—the water we drink, the air we breathe, the land we live on. For more than 20 years, the Nigerian-Belgian artist has pondered questions about resource extraction and replenishment through her multidisciplinary practice.
Toshiko Takaezu: Food For the Searching Soul
The belated celebration of Toshiko Takaezu’s work comes as no surprise, considering how Western art history has downsized the achievements of groundbreaking women artists.
