Raphaela Vogel’s practice has evolved like the proverbial rolling snowball. As a student, she became interested in the performative aspects of painting, which led her to video (featuring herself and sometimes her dog as performers), to self-recorded music and what she calls “video sculptures,” as well as to large-scale installations combining all of these elements.
Involvere: A Conversation with Analía Zalazar
The work of Argentinian artist Analía Zalazar is dominated by one characteristic action—the wrapping of objects. With this gesture, she seeks to establish a kind of link that serves to conserve and protect while managing to achieve volume with the most diverse and unlikely materials, from paper to textiles and aluminum foil.
Mutual Transformation: A Conversation with Daniel Steegmann Mangrané
Daniel Steegmann Mangrané does not believe in the autonomy of art. Taking a sensorial, phenomenological, and collaborative approach to sculpture (as well as to film, sound, augmented reality, gardens, and drawing), he views art-making as primarily about experimentation, potential relations, and new alliances, a chance for discovery in which process is more important than the finished object.
Object Lessons: Karon Davis
I come from a dance background. Both of my parents are dancers—I came out of the womb, and they were like, “Here are your tap shoes, here are your ballet shoes.” I had a show coming up in New York, and Curtain Call seemed like the perfect subject matter; it was where my heart was leading me.
La emocionalidad de lo doméstico: Una Conversación con Nicolás Bacal
Nacido en Buenos Aires, el joven artista visual y músico Nicolás Bacal, con una licenciatura en composición electroacústica de la Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, se desempeña en el campo de las artes desde el 2007.
Digging Into the Guts: A Conversation with Damián Ortega
Damián Ortega, who divides his time between Mexico City and Berlin, began his career as a political cartoonist, and his observant wit remains evident in works that undermine preconceived ideas about art, structural and social systems, urban development, and the environment.
Through Negotiation: A Conversation with Shirley Tse
Recipient of the International Sculpture Center’s 2023 Educator Award For more than three decades, Shirley Tse—longtime CalArts faculty member, Guggenheim Fellow, and Hong Kong representative to the 58th Venice Biennale—has created sculptural interventions that interrogate notions of place, politics, and ecology.
Radical Honesty: A Conversation with Shary Boyle
Shary Boyle has had a dynamic international career, yet, somehow, the United States is just catching on to her captivating interdisciplinary work. Boyle, who represented Canada in the 2013 Venice Biennale, works fluidly across many modalities.
Crossed By Time: A Conversation with Hugo Aveta
For Hugo Aveta, who works and lives in Córdoba, Argentina, time, ghosts, and memories become conceptual raw material. In his devastated, dehumanized scenarios—realized through photographs, videos, sculptures, models, drawings, sound installations, and immersive, site-specific works—what persists is the echo of what was and will never return.
Pensar el mundo desde los márgenes: Una Conversación con Grupo Bondi
Hablar del Grupo Bondi—nombre que sale del lunfardo para referirse a los colectivos públicos de Buenos Aires—es, ante todo, hacer referencia a un colectivo de artistas que se vinculan bajo una bandera común para pensar propuestas creativas, operando en el campo del diseño industrial en su interacción con la vida cotidiana, asumiendo una mirada artística.
