just as it employs materials and is of a scale that the artist necessarily feels entitled to write herself into certain histories and assume certain spaces. I am trying to understand where
Well, part of it is a refusal. Part of it has affected the way that I am quite direct with things and want to confront them head-on. Growing up with this experience, I learned to take a step outside and to look at the broader implications of art and visual culture. Because people ...
I am interested in what the Austrian philosopher Oliver Marchart calls “conflictual aesthetics,” a term denoting how artists use aesthetic means to reflect on, respond to, or contribute to social justice movements. In the bookConflictual Aesthetics: Artistic Activism and the Public Sphere(Sternberg...
I went about it very intuitively. That is how I generally approach works of art. Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that I am an artist and not an art historian: I first look at the work’s own inherent logic, which, of course, also has to do with the time in which i...