Liz Larner embodies Isaiah Berlin’s classic hedgehog vs. fox dichotomy. As the fox, her view of the world can’t be reduced to a single reading; but like the hedgehog, she has the patience and temperament to follow a singular vision.
Object Lessons: Sandra Eula Lee
Change is constant—everything in the material world is always in flux. Living in different cultures, I’ve observed how materials and objects cycle through everyday space in different ways and at different speeds. What can they communicate about the conditions we’ve created?
Marianne Berenhaut: To Change Is Human
A chance encounter with two of Marianne Berenhaut’s evocative sculptures—Pour la troisième fois on l’a sorti du tiroir (For the third time it was taken out of the drawer, 2010) and Fleur électrique (Electric flower, 2020)—proved a watershed moment for me.
A Re-Enchanted 59th Venice Biennale, Part II: Collateral Projects and Museum Exhibitions
The joy of the Venice Biennale goes beyond the Giardini and Arsenale (explored in Part I), with collateral projects and exhibitions that entice you to get lost in the magnificent city and discover art shows within the extraordinary Venetian palazzos, churches, and museums.
Improvising and Transforming: A Conversation with Abraham Cruzvillegas
Many of Abraham Cruzvillegas’s projects are linked by the notion of autoconstrucción, or self-construction—a concept that draws from the ingenious and collaborative building strategies used in his childhood Mexico City neighborhood.
All That Remains: A Conversation with Rachael Louise Bailey
In “Thirst of the Tide,” Rachael Louise Bailey presents a story of documentation, which easily flips to become a documentation of storytelling.
Creaturely Connections: A Conversation with Dean Kenning
Welcome to a future that has always been, where resurrected technology suggests everlasting life and highlights an end point. These are the possibilities and contradictions inhabiting Dean Kenning’s unique kinetic sculptures.
Palabras Irreverentes: Una Conversación con Sebastian Andreatta
“Artista visual, productor musical, técnico de sonido y emprendedor. Interesado en ciencia, nuevas tecnologías, diseño y big data,” así se auto-define Sebastián Andreatta (alias BiH), quien apenas pasando los 30 años, desarrolla una obra preponderantemente urbana donde combina afiches, intervenciones e instalaciones sitio específico así como acciones y performance en la vía pública de carácter
Intense Reactions: A Conversation with Celeste Martínez Abburrá
The work of Argentinian artist Celeste Martínez Abburrá focuses on the body as social metaphor and fragile physical entity—an embodiment of identities, a container expressing thoughts and feelings, a structure for doing, and a host to disease.
I Am the Sculpture: A Conversation with John Court
Born in Bromley in southeastern Greater London, Court worked as a general laborer for several years before receiving a foundation diploma in art from London’s Camberwell School of Art and a BFA in sculpture from the Norwich School of Art and Design.
