Nicola Turner’s practice is profoundly ecological. She works with waste material—mainly raw, untreated wool—and reuses it wherever possible. The wool is often sourced from where she lives or where she has been invited to work and/or exhibit, and she employs it, in combination with horsehair, wood, metal, and other recycled materials, to make large-scale, site-responsive forms
I created Nora’s Ark: Pa’t Too as a performantz based on the mythic tale of The Flood, with obtuse scrambling of facts and frictions, props and costumes of biblical proportions, and some rigorous puntification, all rendered into a contemporary whorl-d.
Buenos Aires-based Julia Padilla uses sculpture, installation, and performance to rethink the transformative potential of life and matter. Constantly exploring new territories, she sets the organic in dialogue with the artificial, juxtaposing unconscious creativity with reason to produce subtly unsettling hybrid forms that question traditional perspectives on the body, space, and perception while imagining new ways
Recipient Of The 2024 Innovator Award Minneapolis-based Alison Hiltner expertly merges science fiction, technology, and the human experience into multimedia, experiential installations that embrace curiosity and a deep sense of wonder. Touch, time, and a keen sense of the absurd feature heavily in her works, provoking unusual connections and insights.
Belgian artist Lili Dujourie, whose career spans close to 60 years, achieved acclaim in the 1980s with her use of velvet as a sculptural substance rich in implications. Many artists who appropriate largely ignored materials continue to exploit them for years as a trademark, but not so with Dujourie.
For the last 15 years, Jeffrey Gibson, the first Native American artist to represent the United States at the Venice Biennale, has been actively working to change the context and perception of Indigenous art. In addition to his personal exploration of heritage through materials and techniques, he also strives to collapse the gap between Indigenous
Zhanna Kadyrova transmits a vitality, and commitment to her work, that almost escapes understanding, considering that she lives and works in Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital city and the target of indiscriminate missile attacks.
