The Mind is King and the Body is Dehydrated
Tell us about your space. The space has a different condition than the rest of the building. The room looks like it should be cold because of the lighting, but […]
Talctotile, Talctotire
What is your process for creating these sculptures? In a lot of my work I’m concerned with the conditions under which something gets made and how those conditions manifest in […]
Flotsam and Derelict
Tell us about your project. A lot of my work is about exploring urban coastlines, so when I got to Texas I was thinking about the Gulf and how it’s […]
diaspora
This exhibition is generously supported by the Linda Pace Foundation. diaspora I / II is the result of Sánchez’s* 2006 Artpace residency, and is on view once more in the […]
Snake Hawk Press Pop-Up at Artpace
What is your approach to printmaking? I’ve always been interested in printed matter. Especially print that exists beyond museum walls. I make a huge effort to allow print to behave […]
Mountain War Time
What is your exhibition about? The work draws on research into the first atomic detonation in Alamogordo, New Mexico and the dangers of its radioactive fallout. I approached the subject […]
Over a line, darkly
How did you become interested in the issue of the Texas/Mexico border? Having grown up on a border as a member of the Kurdish minority in Turkey, I have often […]
The things I could tell…
What is the inspiration behind the project? The idea for the light installation is based on a 9th-century Islamic scientist named Avicenna who used color as a tool to diagnose […]
Bitchen Diorama
What is the theme of Bitchen Diorama? The story about customizing and upgrading is one I can relate to, buying what you can afford and building on that. And eventually, […]
Guitar Drag
Guitar Drag, 2000, video projection, running time 14 minutes As an Artpace International Artist-in-Residence during the winter of 1999, Christian Marclay continued his investigations of the role sound and music […]
They shot my dad, they shot my dad!
What is the narrative of your exhibition? When I came here I hadn’t visited in years, but my grandparents are from Texas and my family still has property in east […]
A prophecy in the history of things
How did you approach this exhibition? When Cesar Garcia invited me to Artpace a year ago, I knew that I didn’t want to simply transport a studio practice into a […]
