Over 1,000 interviews · Since 2003
We are curious about
their work,
not the moment.
Leila Antakly has been talking to the artists, designers, musicians and thinkers shaping culture since 2003. This is the archive of those conversations, and where they led.
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YIM TAE KYU
Korean contemporary art is not a trend. It is the product of a specific and irreducible national experience — Han, Gwangju, the DMZ, the speed of modernisation — that is now being recognised by the world's most important institutions at exactly the moment the global art market is hungry for it. Yim Tae Kyu has been painting the Marginal Man on hanji paper with Indian ink and cartoon precision for years. Mire Lee just filled the Tate Modern Turbine Hall. The world caught up last. The artists were already there.
“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.”
Every project, image, and story is about framing a series of questions that are deeply important to me as a human being.- Shirin Neshat