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Valerie Furnham Answers FADs Questions

1 If you weren’t an artist, what else would you be?
If I could get my head around the physics, I think I’d be an astronomer.

2 Name 3 of your least favourite artists.
That’s a very hard question as I have a tendency not to remember their names if they didn’t make an impression on me.


3. Anytime, any place – which artist’s body would you most like to inhabit?

Yves Klein setting off loads of blow torches, health and safety would never allow you to get away with that anymore.

4 What is your favourite ‘ism’?
Absurdism

5 What was the most intelligent thing that someone said or wrote about your work?
“Don’t forget the crooked path you’ve trodden so far.”

6. And the dumbest?
“Where do I stand to see it?”

7 Which artists would you most like to rip off, sorry, I mean appropriate as a critique of originality and authorship?
I would have to say James Turrell, he has an understanding of light like no other.

8 Do you care what your art costs? State your reasons!
Only in that it will help fund the next piece of work. I think art for an unsuspecting public, perhaps someone who has never set foot in a gallery, can hold some of the most interesting reactions.


9 What are the three big ideas that you would like your work to express?

The unseen worlds of the micro and the macro.

The body in sculptural space.

The universe and its immense vastness – I’m not sure if you can get bigger than that!


10 Are you a political artist?

It is hard to completely escape politics and there are things in the world I feel very strongly about which must influence my work, but I wouldn’t say the work has a political agenda.

11 How do you start the process of making work?
I play – playing with the materials of the world trying to create a chemical reaction.

12 What next?
I’m off to France to create a piece in pure darkness; it is very hard to find that level of darkness in England, especially on the south coast. It is for an exhibition I am in, exploring the wonderment of early cinema.

13 If Moma and the Tate and the Pompidou wanted to acquire one of your works each, which would you want them to have?
I would love to make the work especially designed for the buildings. I am really interested in the interaction of the artwork with the building, and how that in turn interacts with the viewer, and these are three fascinating buildings to work with.


14 Complete the following sentence “Blessed art the artists, for they shall……”

see the universe.

15 Complete the following sentence “Blessed are the curators, for they shall…”
see the world.

16 Complete the following sentence “Blessed are the art critics, for they shall….”
see the stars.


17. What is your favourite cheese?

Parmesan- you can put it on any meal and it tastes good!

18. What’s next for you?
In the process of organising the next group exhibition in London, exploring the body in Flux.

You can see 145bpm in the flesh at Hoxton Art Gallery
in the group show Symbiosis

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