Because Ward’s work can’t be reduced to a mere collection of materials, he enlists viewers in a process that recharges typical interactions with objects. We see something over and above a process and collection of things—a particular lived history of race, poverty, and consumer culture.
Materiales que Construyen Percepciones: Una Conversación con Marcolina Dipierro
Su trabajo se despliega en instalaciones, objetos o conjuntos escultóricos, muchas veces jugando con la dinámica del espacio que los contiene para generar la idea de que esos espacios son habitables en la realidad.
Life and Spirit: A Conversation with Juan Martinez
Detroit-based Juan Martinez, who describes himself as a “kinetic metal sculptor,” was born in Bogotá, Colombia, and grew up in New Orleans. He was educated through a traditional Mexican trade school and an informal apprenticeship model in which he offered to assist people whose work he enjoyed.
A Conversation with Baseera Khan
Baseera Khan’s multimedia practice engages with intertwined social, political, and economic histories and their effects on the diasporic body, often through acts of deconstruction and collage.
Cause and Effect: A Conversation with Sarah Oppenheimer
Sarah Oppenheimer challenges the limits of sculpture and architecture in order to investigate how spaces shape behavior and how behavior can, in turn, impact inhabited space.
La Omnipresencia de los Cuerpos: Una Conversación con Ariadna Pastorini
Uruguaya de nacimiento, viviendo desde hace décadas en Buenos Aires, la artista multidisciplinaria Ariadna Pastorini trabaja abordando la pintura, la escultura, las artes visuales y especialmente los textiles trasladados al lenguaje de la instalación y la performance.
Shapes of Silence: A Conversation with Edmund de Waal
Gathered in large-scale installations and enclosed within minimal structures, Edmund de Waal’s porcelain vessels become vehicles for human narrative and emotion, objects of almost ritual significance haunted by memory.
Everything in Repetition: A Conversation with Noe Aoki
Japanese sculptor Noe Aoki has used iron as her primary material since the 1980s, attracted by its physical properties as well as its symbolic associations and role in human history. Composed of rings and lines, her work develops from a repeated process of cutting and welding industrial iron sheets.
Activating the Void: A Conversation with Naama Tsabar
Naama Tsabar stands still, though not passive, in her signature black jeans, black shirt, and red lipstick, a participant in and creator of Perimeters, her latest performance project.
The Artist as Caretaker: A Conversation with Leone Contini
In Leone Contini’s performative sculptures and installations, the artist also acts as farmer and caregiver, tending living works that require skill and attention to survive.
