Helen Marten with Amanda Gluibizzi
As I was talking with London-based artist Helen Marten, my mind kept turning to Robert Smithson’s assertion that his “sense of language is that it is matter and not ideas—i.e. ‘printed matter.’” There are many ways to understand Smithson’s statement, but one would be to take him seriously and to try to understand language as material, as stuff, as a medium with which a visual artist can create.
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