Joan Hall’s layered, monumental sculptures address how the climate crisis affects human bodies and bodies of water. Her processes and forms start with handmade paper and evolve organically. Part of the mystique in Hall’s work stems from the fact that she uses dry pigments and paper to create water-like surfaces.
Cracks in the System: A Conversation with Agustina Woodgate
Agustina Woodgate, who divides her time between Buenos Aires, Miami, and Amsterdam, sees the human landscape—its spaces, systems, and representation of values—as a conceptual geography open to questioning and improvement.
Stillness in the Midst of Chaos: A Conversation with Masaomi Yasunaga
Masaomi Yasunaga pursues “fundamental beauty.” A student of Satoru Hoshino, Yasunaga continues the experimental ethos of Sodeisha, or “crawling through the mud association,” a postwar Japanese art movement (1948–98) that explored the sculptural possibilities of ceramics.
About Potential: A Conversation with Asim Waqif
Recipient of the 2021 Innovator Award Asim Waqif embraces multiple mediums and materials. Ranging from invented archaeological sites to multisensory and interactive, architecturally scaled environments created from reclaimed timber, demolition salvage, or bamboo, his work cannot be confined by formal parameters or defined by subject matter.
Gregor Schneider: A Sense of Distance
By the time Gregor Schneider was a teenager, he had already begun speculating about alienation and the place of death in life, as well as the deep-seated relationships between people and the spaces they inhabit.
Explorando los Límites de lo Habitual: Una Conversación con Alejandra Tavolini
Licenciada en Bellas Artes por la Universidad Nacional de Rosario, la artista plástica Alejandra Tavolini desarrolla una obra que, según sus palabras “explora el límite de lo habitual, valiéndome de diversos soportes.”
Real Light and Real Angles: A Conversation with Larry Bell
Larry Bell has been pursuing abstract art for over six decades. He is known for his surface treatment ofglass, using it to explore light and space, reflections and shadows, in sculptures that usually take the form of cubes and nesting boxes.
Looking Back To Go Forward: A Conversation with Osman Yousefzada
Concealment and visibility serve as the foundation of Yousefzada’s work, as he re-forms actions and events from the past to reveal the present and future—righting his parents’ wrongs and writing them back into history, while offering his own difference as deliverance.
Collective Dream and Practice: Three Artists at Manifesta 14
Manifesta, also known as the European Nomadic Biennial, is currently on view in Prishtina, Kosovo, through October 30, 2022. This 14th iteration, “it matters what worlds world worlds: how to tell stories otherwise,” addresses the idea of reclaiming and reimagining public spaces.
Thinking Through Place: A Conversation with Anina Major
Anina Major connects to her familial lineage as she weaves clay vessels layer by layer. Through her Bahamian heritage, she investigates the uniqueness of being born and raised on an island where the economy and opportunities for upward mobility are directly tied to tourism.
