Danielle Julian Norton understands the hold that systems of power have on contemporary life. Through acts of resistance—quiet, humorous, thoughtful, and based in care (the antithesis of oppression)—she examines the present and gives us a hopeful vision of the future.
Conceptual Burden: A Conversation with Jim Sanborn
For Jim Sanborn, who has been creating science-based public artworks, installations, and sculptures for several decades, art-making doubles as an exploration of hidden worlds, a way to “make the invisible visible.”
Arquitectura de los vínculos humanos: Una Conversación con Diana Schufer
La artista visual argentina y licenciada en psicología Diana Schufer se apoya en instalaciones, videos y objetos donde, a través del abordaje de las relaciones humanas, genera experiencias inmersivas que ponen en crisis los límites entre lo público y lo privado.
Parallel Evolutions: A Conversation with Katja Novitskova
Estonian-born, Amsterdam-based Katja Novitskova explores how technological tools influence our approach to the natural world, shaping perception and mediating experience. Exploiting the disconnect between physical reality and its digital representations, her sculptures and installations provide an alternative interface where technology and nature can interact in complicated, layered, and generative ways.
Discipline and Routine: A Conversation with Augustas Serapinas
In “Physical Culture,” Lithuanian artist Augustas Serapinas’s current exhibition at Nottingham Contemporary, visitors are invited into a hybrid performance space, drawing studio, and fully operational gym, where a range of Jesmonite sculptures have replaced conventional weights.
vanessa german: leap, all who are heavy laden
vanessa german’s “…do you remember when you were the sky?” is dedicated to the residents of the Colored Girls Dormitory of the Louisville Industrial School of Reform (constructed in 1894–96). Though this former space of enclosure has largely been lost to memory, the original building remains, just a stone’s throw away from german’s exhibition at the Speed Art Museum in Louisville, Kentucky.
Esculturas que danzan con el viento: Una Conversación con Alberto Cavalieri
Las esculturas de Alberto Cavalieri destacan por su monumentalidad, tanto en emplazamientos indoor como en la vía pública, interactuando con el casco urbano y su arquitectura.
Mary Miss’s Photodrawings: Temporal Experience of Place
Photography typically tells a story or records an event. For Mary Miss, it does both. Her photodrawings, as she calls them, not only document her indoor and outdoor installations, but also give viewers a sense of the architectural character of her constructions.
CFGNY: The Matter of Mediation, the Labor of Maintenance
A full-size stepped bridge wrapped in brown synthetic fur straddles the front gallery of Amant in Brooklyn, arching above the concrete floor. Around it, 20 glazed ceramic tiles are arranged on mirror-topped, framework plinths of varying heights to construct an uneven terrain.
Taking Risks: A Conversation with Axel Straschnoy
Helsinki-based Argentinian artist and filmmaker Axel Straschnoy probes scientific phenomena, astronautics, and the social and political facets of the human quest for knowledge. His conceptually inflected, research-driven projects can take many forms, yet they remain connected by a wide-angled, dynamic approach.
