Two recently opened art installations in London are injecting new life into disused spaces within the transport system.
Rehearsing Futures: A Conversation with Petrit Halilaj and Álvaro Urbano
Lunar Ensemble for Uprising Seas (2023), Petrit Halilaj and Álvaro Urbano’s spectacular new installation, features more than 40 sculptural works set within the equally spectacular deconsecrated Chiesa di San Lorenzo in Venice, now called Ocean Space.
Krista Clark: Change of Plans
In Krista Clark’s deft hands, the languages of architecture and sculpture collide, with line, composition,color, volume, and space all coming into play. Her works are crafted from materials typically associated with the building process, but their engagement of space and their relationship to the human body propel them into a deeper conversation.
A Conversation with Marguerite Humeau
London-based French artist Marguerite Humeau performs wide-ranging, research-based excavations of the past to distill new forms—often sculptures—that speculate on presents that might have been, and futures that may still arrive.
Object Lessons: Trenton Doyle Hancock
When people come in, they expect certain things out of a basketball court, and they’re confronted with these lines that don’t quite line up with what they’re used to. My design means that people almost have to find new play patterns within it, until they can acclimate to the space and the work.
Poética de lo incierto: Una Conversación con Cynthia Kampelmacher
Con una obra que hace pie en el dibujo, Cynthia Kampelmacher, artista visual, Licenciada en Artes Visuales por la Universidad Nacional de las Artes (UNA) y docente, genera desde la línea una proyección fuera del plano, para crear espacialidad desde sutiles hasta grandes instalaciones.
Personal Mythology: A Conversation with Sophie Ryder
“All of Us,” Sophie Ryder’s current exhibition at The Lightbox in Woking, England, near London, features over 50 examples of her anthropomorphic dream imagery—ladyhares, minotaurs, boars, and dogs, as well as dislocated representations of eyes, hands, and feet, all magically juxtaposed across the exhibition space.
Nomadic Fragments: A Conversation with Jim Condron
Jim Condron started his career in the mid-1990s as a painter, primarily of abstract works. He moved to Baltimore, Maryland, in 1995, where he attended the graduate program at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), earning an MFA in 2004.
Felt History: A Conversation with Abigail DeVille
Abigail DeVille lets objects reveal America’s invisible histories. Her recent solo shows in New York—“Bronx Heavens” (Bronx Museum of the Arts, 2022–23), “Original Night” (Eric Firestone Gallery, 2022), and “In the fullness of time, the heart speaks truths too deep for utterance, but a star remembers.”
Concrete Things and Momentary Places: A Conversation with Hu Xiaoyuan
Beijing-based sculptor Hu Xiaoyuan takes a thoughtful, philosophical approach to contemporary art. Both an installation artist and a creator of individual objects, she is as concerned with the idea of form as its physical existence, investigating the three-dimensional as site as well as object.
