Portfolio

  Interview with Hasan Elahi 6 September 2018 Gwangju Please tell us how your work Thousand Little Brothers came into being. Sure. This work that’s back here behind us over here started out right after 911, September 11th 2001. Shortly after that, I was reported as a terrorist. I was accidentally reported, I should say. There was an erroneous […]

  Interview with Hyangro Yoon4 September 2018Gwangju Please tell us how your work Screensaver came into being. My recent interest lies in the borders between mediums within the arts. For this exhibition, I attempt to juxtapose the mediums of video-screen art and painting-sculpture. In this video art piece, I see QLED TV as the medium. I […]

Interview with Simon Leung 28 August 2018 Gwangju How did the project Rehearsal for 9 Collective Movements come into being? I met Dr. Koon Yeewan in January and I had been telling her about a project that I initiated eight years ago called the Proposal for squatting project Hong Kong. The project consisted of a […]

  Interview with Nara Yoshitomo 2 July 2018 Japan In recent years, you have been engaged with more projects to do with Northern Japan. Can you talk a little more about why this region is important to you? How did you first become interested in working in Tobiu? I was born and raised in a […]

  Interview with Shitamichi Motoyuki 4 September 2018 Gwangju How did the work 14 years old & the world & borders come into being? In 2012, I moved from Tokyo to Asa city. One day, I found a small and beautiful river near my new house. This river’s name is “Sakaigawa”, which means, “Border River”. […]

  Interview with Joongho Yum 17 August 2018 South Korea Please tell us how your work under the skin came into being in relation to the theme of the exhibition, Faultlines and Imagined Borders. For me, ‘place’ is an important aspect and I cannot deny that my thoughts about Gwangju were already fixed into this […]

  Interview with Byron Kim 2 July 2018 New York How was the experience of exhibiting Synecdoche at the 1993 Whitney Biennale? Originally Synecdoche came into being in the early 90s—possibly even in the late 80s. When a friend of mine was visiting from Canada, and I simply painted, the color of skin on his […]

Interview with Tara Donovan 31 July 2018 Via email Can you tell us a little about your work Untitled? Why are you interested in plastic tubes? Why did you choose a bisected pyramid form for this work? My project takes the form of a monumental installation that resulted from some of my experiments with the […]

Interview with Yoan Capote 2 July 2018 Havana Please tell us about your work Muro de Mar. This piece, specifically entitled Sea Wall, uses material as an element that brings forth a symbolism of the work. The series is inspired by the term that was coined in the times of the Cold War—The Iron Curtain. […]

  Interview with Chen Wei 7 July 2018 Hong Kong Take Disco and New City as examples, your works always have close connections with night scenes and building facades. Why is the city important in your art practice? Chen: When I first started making art, I didn’t think about having the city as the main […]

  Interview with Luke Ching 18 July 2018 Hong Kong You always use conceptual art as ways of intervening the society or responding to politics. Why do you choose this as a way of expression? Recently, the way of creating that I care about is finding the role of artists in a civil society. Instead […]

  Interview with Minjung Kim 22 August 2018 Gwangju Please tell us about your project The Corner. I always think about all of us as animals. We want to be in the hiding. We want to be protected. We could say your motherhood symbolizes your hometown. Many things are familiarised, which makes us [feel] very […]

  Interview with Paolo Cirio 18 July 2018 New York Please tell us about your project Obscurity. In the United States, it’s very easy to end up in jail—to be incarcerated. It has caused a massive incarceration problem, in which it has been increasingly an issue of people going to jail for a long time […]