"All of these non-articulated crossroads' intersections of our histories are ineffable and private." — Robin Coste Lewis

Art Conversation con Julie Mehretu
Close ph: Matteo De Fina © Palazzo Grassi
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Fri, 03/29/2024 - 10:00

"All of these non-articulated crossroads' intersections of our histories are ineffable and private." — Robin Coste Lewis

Discover the Art Conversation with Julie Mehretu and her fellow artists Jessica Rankin, Nairy Baghramian, Tacita Dean and Robin Coste Lewis, moderated by the exhibition's curator Caroline Bourgeois and Patricia Falguières, one of the authors of the exhibition catalogue.

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"[…] I do use words and language, but I read a lot of poetry and I'm very interested in the abstraction of poetry and the space it gives you. […]" — Jessica Rankin

"[…] It's been an interest [for me], the idea of performance, but I think a lot of that is about performative time, and how music is a time-based media that holds a certain kind of attention, and how to find ways to bring that into painting, because I really think these paintings require time. […]" — Julie Mehretu