GLASGOW The Modern Institute Wilkes makes art engrained with memories—of childhood, of people no longer with us, of past events that weigh heavy on the present. Her work can be hard to unpick, but she prefers not to say much about it, instead allowing viewers to find their own paths through her beautifully considered, tightly bound inquiries.
Cause and Effect: A Conversation with Sarah Oppenheimer
Sarah Oppenheimer challenges the limits of sculpture and architecture in order to investigate how spaces shape behavior and how behavior can, in turn, impact inhabited space.
La Omnipresencia de los Cuerpos: Una Conversación con Ariadna Pastorini
Uruguaya de nacimiento, viviendo desde hace décadas en Buenos Aires, la artista multidisciplinaria Ariadna Pastorini trabaja abordando la pintura, la escultura, las artes visuales y especialmente los textiles trasladados al lenguaje de la instalación y la performance.
Shapes of Silence: A Conversation with Edmund de Waal
Gathered in large-scale installations and enclosed within minimal structures, Edmund de Waal’s porcelain vessels become vehicles for human narrative and emotion, objects of almost ritual significance haunted by memory.
Julia Shepley
BOSTON Boston Sculptors Gallery Julia Shepley’s wall constructions give the sense of architecture and furnishings gone awry, their dimensions stretched in an almost dream-like fashion.
Jesse Darling
OXFORD, U.K. Modern Art Oxford The vulnerability of the bodies suggested in the sculptures is, at times, almost too much to bear, but there are one or two lighter moments amid the seriousness.
Everything in Repetition: A Conversation with Noe Aoki
Japanese sculptor Noe Aoki has used iron as her primary material since the 1980s, attracted by its physical properties as well as its symbolic associations and role in human history. Composed of rings and lines, her work develops from a repeated process of cutting and welding industrial iron sheets.
Phyllida Barlow
LOS ANGELES Hauser & Wirth Every view of Phyllida Barlow’s current exhibition takes on a filmic quality—the work seems to shift, to be in the process of constantly transferring weight.
Activating the Void: A Conversation with Naama Tsabar
Naama Tsabar stands still, though not passive, in her signature black jeans, black shirt, and red lipstick, a participant in and creator of Perimeters, her latest performance project.
The Artist as Caretaker: A Conversation with Leone Contini
In Leone Contini’s performative sculptures and installations, the artist also acts as farmer and caregiver, tending living works that require skill and attention to survive.
