From the moment I first encountered Emma Jääskeläinen’s sculptures, I made a mental note to follow her progress. In works such as According to Shadow and Creator (New Potato and Olive) (both 2017), she mixes elements large and small, hard and soft, mineral and organic to create bold, visually poetic, and appealingly absurd juxtapositions.
Cuando el tiempo lo es todo: Una Conversación con Santiago Colombo Migliorero
Oriundo de La Plata, Bs.As, el artista audiovisual Santiago Colombo Migliorero, se deja guiar hacia una exploración sensible que se apoya fuertemente en el concepto de la temporalidad como rectora y organizadora, estudiando al tiempo como un material cuasi plástico que lo condiciona todo.
Unfolding Into the World: A Conversation with Tory Fair
The practice of Boston-based Tory Fair consists of a captivating blend of body and ecology. In her recent work, which involves casting live sunflowers, she is not bound by fidelity to natural forms; instead, she allows material and process to imprint on making.
Proportional Relationships: A Conversation with Franka Hörnschemeyer
German artist Franka Hörnschemeyer works with architecture and space, using arrangements of objects made with ordinary building materials to examine history and social structures. By casting the familiar in a new light, her installations, objects, and site-specific interventions open a range of temporal and spatial associations.
Matter and Spirit: A Conversation with Luana Vitra
Materials matter to Luana Vitra. She uses iron, copper, wood, feathers, and clay—materials embedded in the history, culture, and geology of her home region of Minas Gerais in Brazil—to explore our connections to the earth, how we are at one with its offerings and how we exploit them.
Not Written in Stone
Somewhere between then and now and now and next, “Beyond Granite: Pulling Together” (2023) briefly transformed the National Mall in Washington, DC, boldly asking what an expanded vision of democracy might be.
Jardines distópicos: Una Conversación con María Ibáñez Lago
Con una vida que se desarrolla entre las calles parisinas y Buenos Aires, María Ibáñez Lago, artista plástica y escenógrafa, se formó en Escenografía y Pintura en la Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, París, en el taller de Zao-Woo-ki y en Argentina tomó clínicas con Diana Aisenberg.
Time Levels: A Conversation with Claudia Wieser
German artist Claudia Wieser works with photo-based wallpaper, ceramic tile, and other seemingly decorative elements to create environments filled with crisscrossing historical and biographical narratives. Working between art and utilitarian object, she considers the various components in her structures, which refer to art, architecture, design, film, and theater, as “individuals in a constellation.”
Open Intervals: A Conversation with Lucila Sancineti
Lucila Sancineti, a visual artist trained at the University of Buenos Aires and a literature instructor, continuously explores ways of working with matter. Her interdisciplinary approach to sculpture and installation employs painting, textiles, ceramics, and biomaterials to extend our perceptions of ordinary encounters, objects, and experiences.
Interstitial Existence: A Conversation with Kishio Suga
For six decades, Kishio Suga has explored the question of whether intentions adhere to things. One of Japan’s most important artists and a key figure in the Mono-ha movement, he began his career in the late 1960s, using natural and industrial materials to create temporary installations that aimed to show “the reality of mono (things/materials) and the jōkyō (situation) that holds them together.”
