Oscar Tuazon works in and out of and between sculpture, architecture, and the meditative spirit. His practice also expands toward activism related to land and water access and infrastructure. Often using architectural techniques and materials, he produces quasi-functional objects, parts or representations of spaces, and constructions that are open to use and appropriation.
Open Books: A Conversation with Jukhee Kwon
Jukhee Kwon, who has been making three-dimensional, paper-based works for over a decade, uses discarded books as her primary material, carefully slicing, cutting, and otherwise manipulating their pages to create a variety of unexpected forms—from intimate, small-scale objects to large-scale installations.
Endless Inventory: A Conversation with Florian Slotawa
Conceptual artist Florian Slotawa does not make his work from scratch. Instead, he assembles his sculptures and installations from what already exists, rearranging and recontextualizing found material with a keen sense of form and color.
Materializando Certezas: Una Conversación con Marina De Caro
Artista visual y Licenciada en Historia del Arte (UBA), la marplatense Marina De Caro ha recorrido una larga carrera en el campo de las artes interesada siempre en un cruce multidisciplinario donde dibujos, textiles, instalaciones, esculturas, cerámicas, videos o performances, se desplieguen sin reglas fijas sin “ningún tipo de ortodoxia.”
Out of the Ocean: A Conversation with Duke Riley
The junk-based sculptures and film installations in “DEATH TO THE LIVING, Long Live Trash,” Duke Riley’s current exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum, take aim at the environmental villains, past and present, responsible for the destruction of the world’s oceans.
Mean Functionality: A Conversation with Irina Kirchuk
Irina Kirchuk’s works walk a fine line between abstraction and figuration. The Argentinian artist, who lives and works in Buenos Aires, observes the urban landscape and recovers objects from it, collecting and classifying them, exploring what she calls “their material obsolescence and mean functionality.”
John Henry: One Idea Leads To Another
A life is not a timeline. The supposed linear movement, building one moment adjacent to another, is a false construct. Adding another dimension gives a planar view of bright moments, scattered like diamonds on a field of velvet.
Prohibido Olvidar: Una Conversación con Leo Nuñez
“Exhibo en mis trabajos los contextos económicos y políticos que atraviesan los países de mi región. Desde el espacio llamado de ‘subdesarrollo,’ trabajo la obra tecnológica a partir de los conceptos de las últimas tecnologías pero utilizando materiales territorializados.”
BGL: When Art Feels Free
For 25 years, the Québec City-based collective BGL (Jasmin Bilodeau, Sébastien Giguère, and Nicolas Laverdière) was a dynamic force in the Canadian art scene, exhibiting widely in the artists’ home province, as well as across the country and in Europe.
Healing Instruments: A Conversation with Guadalupe Maravilla
New York-based Guadalupe Maravilla left his homeland as a young boy during the height of El Salvador’s civil war. That traumatic past and a more recent bout with cancer have directed the course of his life and work.
