Interview with an artist

Question:

Answer: I describe my practice as opaque. I like big fonts, large scale objects, things you can see and touch clearly without the fear of porosity. It is as if you hit a wall every time you see my work! (laughter)

It is ultimately, an encounter with the end. I want no one to be able to move or cross over. You just stand there still knowing there’s nothing more and nothing after.

Question:

Answer: I grew up surrounded by people with broken characters, fractured wounds and inconsistent moralities. In my work I try to tell these fractured subjectivities that ultimately there’s no fix, and while it is said that the wound itself is an opening, I believe that the wound closes on that which hurts, folds. You can tell them to wander or dream of a whole self but that’s just selling lies to strangers seeking truths. The truth is the biggest psyop of this generation.

Question:

Answer: I once went to this exhibition which featured different forms of art, those ,entering the gallery were required to film their experience and reflect on the works of art. The purpose was to provoke critical engagement and somehow make exterior that which is interior on the minds of the bored gallery visitors. At first I thought what a brilliant idea! But then I tried to do it myself, and I felt like I’m stuck in someone else’s dream. I thought about the artist talking with enthusiasm about this work with curators and fellow artists while drinking champagne at the opening, feeling so great and important. I have seen the vlogs and most of the reflection with the art was shallow at best, the works of art became a mere tool serving this conceptual spectacle.

I decided to film the people filming the vlogs, and that is my current project. That’s the opaque wall I have created. The artist is now suing me.