There are moments in art when the creative act feels inseparable from survival, a source of sustenance as much as vision. An acute tension between fracture and form, between vulnerability and vigor, runs through the work of Thomas Houseago.
Sensory Curiosity: A Conversation with Julia Padilla
Buenos Aires-based Julia Padilla uses sculpture, installation, and performance to rethink the transformative potential of life and matter. Constantly exploring new territories, she sets the organic in dialogue with the artificial, juxtaposing unconscious creativity with reason to produce subtly unsettling hybrid forms that question traditional perspectives on the body, space, and perception while imagining new ways
Failure as Methodology: A Conversation with Andrew Gannon
Edinburgh-based Andrew Gannon—along with 2025 Turner Prize winner Nnena Kalu, Daisy Lafarge, and Jo Longhurst, the three other artists currently featured in “We Contain Multitudes” at Dundee Contemporary Arts (DCA) in Scotland—makes work from a position of disability, in his case a congenital limb difference.
Intérprete del espacio cotidiano: Una Conversación con Daniel Basso
Daniel Basso, nacido en Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires, cursa estudios de pintura en la Escuela Superior de Artes Visuales Martín Malharro de su ciudad. Desde 2002, desarrolla una obra que él mismo calificada como “una interpretación del espacio en función de fenómenos formales que provienen de la observación de entornos urbanos y domésticos,” utilizando
Maneuvering the Consequences: A Conversation with Alison Hiltner
Recipient Of The 2024 Innovator Award Minneapolis-based Alison Hiltner expertly merges science fiction, technology, and the human experience into multimedia, experiential installations that embrace curiosity and a deep sense of wonder. Touch, time, and a keen sense of the absurd feature heavily in her works, provoking unusual connections and insights.
Emphasizing Tension: A Conversation with Lili Dujourie
Belgian artist Lili Dujourie, whose career spans close to 60 years, achieved acclaim in the 1980s with her use of velvet as a sculptural substance rich in implications. Many artists who appropriate largely ignored materials continue to exploit them for years as a trademark, but not so with Dujourie.
Clusters of Memory: A Conversation with Jeffrey Gibson
For the last 15 years, Jeffrey Gibson, the first Native American artist to represent the United States at the Venice Biennale, has been actively working to change the context and perception of Indigenous art. In addition to his personal exploration of heritage through materials and techniques, he also strives to collapse the gap between Indigenous
Direct Experience: A Conversation with Zhanna Kadyrova
Zhanna Kadyrova transmits a vitality, and commitment to her work, that almost escapes understanding, considering that she lives and works in Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital city and the target of indiscriminate missile attacks.
Staring Into Space: A Conversation with Rachel Whiteread
Rachel Whiteread treats space as the substance of sculpture, a physical entity that, in the words of French writer Georges Perec, “arrests the gaze.” For over 30 years, Whiteread has attempted to fill the spatial voids bounded by objects and architecture and capture them in form, grounding her practice in a singular paradox—to make the
Comer, pensar, amar: Una Conversación con Lucía Reissig
La artista visual argentina Lucía Reissig, nacida en Buenos Aires pero residente en Nueva York, estudia la memoria a través del espacio y los objetos domésticos, con especial énfasis puesto en los alimentos como medio de interacción colectiva, su política de manipulación, consumo, cuidado y los afectos que se tejen alrededor de ellos.
