'It's not easy but my job is to bring the destruction of Syria into the art studio'
SHARE Artists cannot escape from translating or bringing what's happening around them in the world into their studios. That is regardless of what form of art: sculpture, poetry or a dance. The role of the artist is to respond, but this is half of the story. From my perspective, the artist brings the outside world in but, equally, the outside world has the right to respond or not to this creation. What I notice is that because I am working with materials that speak to many people - because it's a found and familiar object, because the agency of the material is in itself very powerful - people ...
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