As much about persuasion as indulgence, objects of desire depend on packaging and material matter for their allure. For London-based, Peruvian-born Lizi Sánchez, the careful design decisions made by conglomerates lead us to experience the world differently.
Time Sensitive: A Conversation with Silvia Rivas
Silvia Rivas graduated from the National School of Fine Arts as a sculptor, but she is interested in the capacity of video to capture visual ideas connected with the concept of time. Her first video installation was shown at the Museum of Fine Arts in Buenos Aires in 1990; since then, she has been awarded
Evidence of Action In Progress: A Conversation with Isabel Nuño de Buen
Isabel Nuño de Buen’s installations explore architecture, urban planning, experience, and memories, with an emphasis on re-creating and tabling organizational systems. Blending drawing and sculpture, she builds her constructions through a complex layering process in which each level operates according to its own internal logic.
Chung Seoyoung: Unexpected Moments of Sculpture
What to make of large scrap-like pieces of metal strategically placed on the floor? Or a tabletop with a chunk cut out of the corner? These questions come to mind as one searches for appropriate tools to assess Chung Seoyoung’s sculpture and multi – media work.
Double-Takes: A Conversation with Alisa Baremboym
Alisa Baremboym’s eclectic and hermetic work is receiving a great deal of attention, judging by the number of exhibitions in which her objects have been featured and by the critical literature they have generated. Her sculpture juxtaposes materials and processes, opacity and transparency, lightness and weight, abstraction and figuration, the past and the future, the
Engineering Transparency: A Conversation with Naomi Campbell
Naomi Campbell’s work fuses the art of science and the science of art. Starting with nature’s sculpted forms, she introduces new definitions of the organic and the synthetic through fragmented objects and hybridized systems that follow the concepts and connotations of natural systems.
Out From the Shadows: A Conversation with Tim Noble and Sue Webster
Tim Noble and Sue Webster are, like their contemporaries Tracey Emin, Jake and Dinos Chapman, and Damien Hirst, defined by their subversiveness, as artists and individuals. The pair have collaborated since their college days in the late 1980s.
Monika Sosnowska: Misdirecting Reality
There is a system of interconnected concepts expressed through steel–the skyscraper, the automobile, modernity itself. Bearing its own language and history, it’s also the “steel trap,” the “steel hand in the velvet glove,” the “city forged from steel.”
Imaginary Spaces Within: A Conversation with Soo Sunny Park
Starting with ordinary materials such as chain link fencing, Soo Sunny Park’s sculptures and installations “catch” and interact with natural light. In a radical twist, changing light, rather than the work itself, is central to the viewer’s experience.
Sinead McKeever: There But Not There
Though artists rarely develop in a straightforward manner, Modernist thought likes to pretend that there is an “onward and upward” ascent toward some kind of perfection. In reality, however, most artists make small incremental moves (sometimes forward, sometimes back), while, every now and then, experiencing a sudden spurt ahead–a jump that, without the benefit of
