Recipient of the 2022 Innovator Award Herman van Bergen’s environmentally friendly Cathedral of Thorns, hovering between sculpture and architecture, consists of built-up acacia branches pressed into a mold and glued together to form airy building blocks.
From the Imagined World: A Conversation with Muhannad Shono
From ink drawings and photomontages born of inventive frustration to multidisciplinary installations that bring his private stories into the lived world—most dramatically in The Teaching Tree (Saudi pavilion, Venice Biennale, 2022)—he has devoted himself to reclaiming the line and the word, transforming them from tools of censorship and authority into expressions of free will.
Beginnings and Endings: A Conversation with Emily Counts
Seattle-based Emily Counts takes a personal approach to sculpture, creating ceramic and mixed-media works based on memories that also leave ample space for interpretation. Sea of Vapors, her immersive installation at the Museum of Museums in Seattle (on view through September 1, 2023), leans into the narrative potential of ceramics.
Naturaleza espejada: Una Conversación con Fabiana Imola
Dueña de una mirada estética que hace foco en la naturaleza, la rosarina Fabiana Imola desarrolla una obra con una fuerte impronta abstracta pero que pone al espectador dentro de un universo vegetal inconfundible.
Lived Experience: A Conversation with Keg de Souza
Keg de Souza’s multidisciplinary practice gravitates around issues of place, community, and spatial politics. Drawing on her architectural training and experience as a squatter and organizer, she uses installation, temporary architecture, performance, workshops, and food to create informal, imaginative platforms for learning, participation, and exchange.
Sarah Sze and Monster Chetwynd: Transporting Art
Two recently opened art installations in London are injecting new life into disused spaces within the transport system.
Rehearsing Futures: A Conversation with Petrit Halilaj and Álvaro Urbano
Lunar Ensemble for Uprising Seas (2023), Petrit Halilaj and Álvaro Urbano’s spectacular new installation, features more than 40 sculptural works set within the equally spectacular deconsecrated Chiesa di San Lorenzo in Venice, now called Ocean Space.
Krista Clark: Change of Plans
In Krista Clark’s deft hands, the languages of architecture and sculpture collide, with line, composition,color, volume, and space all coming into play. Her works are crafted from materials typically associated with the building process, but their engagement of space and their relationship to the human body propel them into a deeper conversation.
A Conversation with Marguerite Humeau
London-based French artist Marguerite Humeau performs wide-ranging, research-based excavations of the past to distill new forms—often sculptures—that speculate on presents that might have been, and futures that may still arrive.
Object Lessons: Trenton Doyle Hancock
When people come in, they expect certain things out of a basketball court, and they’re confronted with these lines that don’t quite line up with what they’re used to. My design means that people almost have to find new play patterns within it, until they can acclimate to the space and the work.
