From ink drawings and photomontages born of inventive frustration to multidisciplinary installations that bring his private stories into the lived world—most dramatically in The Teaching Tree (Saudi pavilion, Venice Biennale, 2022)—he has devoted himself to reclaiming the line and the word, transforming them from tools of censorship and authority into expressions of free will.
William Edmondson and Brendan Fernandes
PHILADELPHIA Barnes Foundation Brendan Fernandes’s Returning to Before, commissioned by the Barnes Foundation in response to the exhibition “William Edmondson: A Monumental Vision,” proposes that gesture can reach back through time and connect us with the past.
Pipilotti Rist
HOUSTON Museum of Fine Arts Unlike much video art, which (for me, anyway) remains prohibitively esoteric, Rist’s work keeps accruing mainstream accessibility; in 2016, Beyoncé famously channeled the whimsical, eight-minute Ever is Over All (1997) in her music video Hold Up.
Beginnings and Endings: A Conversation with Emily Counts
Seattle-based Emily Counts takes a personal approach to sculpture, creating ceramic and mixed-media works based on memories that also leave ample space for interpretation. Sea of Vapors, her immersive installation at the Museum of Museums in Seattle (on view through September 1, 2023), leans into the narrative potential of ceramics.
Naturaleza espejada: Una Conversación con Fabiana Imola
Dueña de una mirada estética que hace foco en la naturaleza, la rosarina Fabiana Imola desarrolla una obra con una fuerte impronta abstracta pero que pone al espectador dentro de un universo vegetal inconfundible.
Lived Experience: A Conversation with Keg de Souza
Keg de Souza’s multidisciplinary practice gravitates around issues of place, community, and spatial politics. Drawing on her architectural training and experience as a squatter and organizer, she uses installation, temporary architecture, performance, workshops, and food to create informal, imaginative platforms for learning, participation, and exchange.
Abigail Lane
SAXMUNDHAM, U.K. The Art Station Hanging inside a cupboard, a wool sweater proclaims “Escape Artist.” A statement of intent or of being?
Sarah Sze and Monster Chetwynd: Transporting Art
Two recently opened art installations in London are injecting new life into disused spaces within the transport system.
In Love With the World
Celebration, people, relationships, surroundings: In different ways, pretty much all of Deller’s work includes these crucial elements; elements that bob and weave through this quirky, good-natured, and rather lovely looking book, designed by another regular Deller collaborator, Fraser Muggeridge Studio.
