Tuesday, June 11, 2013

Artist interview, Walid Raad: a mediator between worlds - The Art Newspaper

Artistic interventions: Walid Raad, Appendix XVIII: Plates 160-237, 2012

Artist interview, Walid Raad: a mediator between worlds - The Art Newspaper

"...when these objects travel overseas, they will change...In the final reckoning, Raad is committed to expressing his political, historical and theoretical concerns in a medium that is emphatically visual. “I’m working with line, colour, shape and form,” he says. “Whether it’s a war or this massive infrastructure, you confront an event like this emotionally, aesthetically, historically, conceptually, and you see an opening for a new form, a gesture that must do justice to the complexity of this experience. Physical universes are being built all the time. How do you build one that doesn’t collapse in a few seconds? That’s a challenge."