Baseera Khan’s multimedia practice engages with intertwined social, political, and economic histories and their effects on the diasporic body, often through acts of deconstruction and collage.
March/April 2022
March/April 2022
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.
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.
The Heart of Matter: A Conversation with Maud Cotter
Maud Cotter, one of Ireland’s most inventive artists, has almost four decades of work behind her, and she continues to change while still remaining, essentially, herself.
The Measure of Modernism: A Conversation with Leonor Antunes
Inspired by Modernist outliers (from Carlo Scarpa, Anni Albers, and Lenore Tawney to Lina Bo Bardi and Egle Trincanato), Antunes follows extensive research into their work with acts of extraction and artistic translation.
Firelei Báez
BOSTON ICA Watershed Firelei Báez, the third artist invited to create a site-specific work for the ICA’s East Boston annex, was the first to use the space successfully, taking the history of the location as a pivotal point of reference.
Sonia Gomes: Radical Intimacy
Sonia Gomes has been making radically intimate, fabric-based sculpture for three decades, in defiance of racism, ageism, and misogyny. Her story is the stuff of which art world myths are made, a story in which, against all odds, rags turn to riches, obscurity to worldwide recognition.
Sheila Hicks: The Irrepressible Trajectory of Lines and Color
Recipient of the 2022 Lifetime Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award The investigation of line, color, and fiber has been Sheila Hicks’s lifelong pursuit. She ignores borders, learns languages, and discovers materials as she migrates from painting to weaving to sculpture.
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer
SAN FRANCISCO SFMOMA Truly experiencing Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’s work requires us to pay close attention: to make our minds and imaginations available in ways dangerously eroded by the distractions of the Internet. This is somewhat paradoxical, considering the technological complexity of his installations.
