Mondongo se presenta como un grupo de artistas argentinos que trabajan colectivamente desde 1999, intentando desenfocar la noción de autoría. De la mano de Juliana Laffitte y Manuel Mendanha, desarrollan series de pinturas en alto relieve donde se abordan temas como el poder, el trabajo, la economía, la sexualidad, a través del uso de materialidades
Disparate Realities: A Conversation with Monira Al Qadiri
By combining personal experience, perspectives on the history and culture of the Persian Gulf region, and investigations into the many tentacles of the petrochemical industry, Berlin-based Kuwaiti artist Monira Al Qadiri produces works that impel us to contend with our ongoing relationship to and dependence on crude oil.
The Agency of Things: A Conversation with Juan Ortiz-Apuy
The human hand’s ability to touch, display, gesture, and manipulate materials forms the core of Coming to Grips, Juan Ortiz-Apuy’s current installation at YYZ Artists’ Outlet in Toronto.
Fragile Times: A Conversation with Nataliya Zuban
Though Nataliya Zuban is steeped in the traditional ceramic production of her native town of Opishnia (known as the ceramic capital of Ukraine), she applies her deep understanding of material and process in strikingly unconventional ways as a window into natural processes.
Rebellious Subjects: A Conversation with Reza Aramesh
Tehran-born, London-based Reza Aramesh describes his choice of subject matter as “necessary for the moment we are in.” Neither protest not political crusade, his figures of anonymous men explore violence in its most banal and insidious forms.
Let It Go: A Conversation with Ryan Schneider
Ryan Schneider, who until recently was best known for his heavily built-up paintings, takes almost the opposite approach to sculpture, following Constantin Brancusi who argued that “one should know how to dig out the being that is within matter.”
Cuestión de piel: Una Conversación con Nadia Guthmann
Nadia Guthmann, artista visual y doctora en biología, establece una conexión entre ambos campos, haciendo que los fundamentos sensibles y racionales se entrelacen orgánicamente. Su producción se compone mayoritariamente de esculturas en mallas de metal y ocasionalmente realiza con ellas instalaciones con o sin movimiento, proyectando las sombras en pantallas traslúcidas.
Object Lessons: Dana Barnes
Entwined grew out of my preoccupation with how nature reasserts itself in abandoned, vacant places. I’m drawn to the way that vines spiral into emptiness, how they fill voids left behind, their tendrils reaching without logic or order.
Perpetual Ungroundedness: A Conversation with Linda Sormin
For 20 years, Linda Sormin has explored fragility, upheaval, migration, survival, and change through ceramic and mixed-media sculptures and site-responsive installations. Her work has always been influenced—at times unwittingly, she says—by her family roots in Thailand, China, and Indonesia.
Thresholds and Traces: A Conversation with Lydia C. Thompson
Lydia C. Thompson’s ceramic and mixed-media sculptures combine architectural form with layered storytelling, exploring the porous, transitional nature of “home” as physical space and social construct. Her hand-built, perforated structures invite reflection on thresholds of movement, vulnerability, and resilience amid gentrification and migration.
