Curious about
their work,
not the moment.
Leila Antakly has spent over twenty years in conversation with artists, musicians, designers, filmmakers, and thinkers all over the world who are making work that matters. These are the conversations.
Interviews from the Archive
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Visual Artist Leila Jeffreys
Sydney bird photographer Leila Jeffreys on portraiture at human scale, the Arctic, slow-motion flight, Antarctica with the Australian Antarctic Division, and her forthcoming Thames & Hudson book.
ARCHITECT ARTIST AND PROCESS DESIGNER OSKAR ZIETA
Oskar Zieta did not decide what inflated steel would look like. He discovered that inflated steel has its own formal logic, and then he spent decades learning to collaborate with it. Two flat sheets of stainless steel are laser-cut, welded at their edges, and then inflated with air pressure until they find their own three-dimensional form. He calls it a controlled loss of control. MoMA calls it a collection. The Vitra Design Museum calls it a collection. Centre Pompidou calls it a collection. The Kraken, his latest work, is a giant steel squid.
“Visibility has never been our measure of significance. We seek out artists and inspiring individuals whose work sparks curiosity, challenges assumptions, and leaves a lasting impression.”