Fresh Trauma curated by Rebecca Lennon
11 June 2013 • Yvette
‘I tried to have a title and concept for the show that is very physical and about a sensory relation to our time: in that way all the artists connect’.
Author: Yvette
Yvette Greslé is a London based art historian and writer. She tweets @yvettegresle
Bill Viola: Frustrated Actions and Futile Gestures
7 June 2013 • Yvette
‘I think mystery is probably the most important aspect of my work. Mystery is the time when you open the door and you close it and you don’t know where you’re going.’
Peckham Space: Art in Life
5 June 2013 • Yvette
‘It’s about a way of engaging people locally in creative activity that might then lead on into education’.
Interview: Margaret Harrison: art, life and politics
26 May 2013 • Yvette
‘There’s another work of Captain America. But he’s kind of altered. You can tell he has breasts, and he’s facing away and looking into the mirror’.
Interview: Sinta Tantra: ‘The Eccentricity of Zero’
22 May 2013 • Yvette
‘I feel like I just want to stay right on the edge rather than jumping in’.
‘Awkward studies and a decent take on serious matters’
7 May 2013 • Yvette
‘I don’t want to just fall in love with this material and just reference it. I want to take it, and fight for finding my own voice in there’.
Henny Acloque: Life After Magic
15 April 2013 • Yvette
‘If one doesn’t struggle with painting now then what’s the point of doing it. You’ve got to fight with it. There is always a struggle in my work with old and new’.
Interview: Roelof van Wyk: tracing history
5 March 2013 • Yvette
I wanted to start tracing my own history. The whole body of work is a self-portrait, and my own tenuous links to each of the individuals I photographed.
Julia Pfeiffer: Figures of the Thinkable
27 February 2013 • Yvette
Clay, its materiality and its possibilities, appear in other works – across a wall a series of objects that invoke observation and reflection.
David and John Blandy walking and talking
25 February 2013 • Yvette
It was a way of starting to have a conversation with my father about art, and about where I’ve come from, and where he’s come from. And how his life and career has affected how I’ve thought about art and where I wanted to go with it.
Mikhail Karikis: Voicing the Invisible
22 February 2013 • Yvette
I have always been very interested in making sound, in the experience of sound, the impact of sound.
Conrad Ventur: Montezland
5 February 2013 • Yvette
This is an expanded portrait really. It’s a tribute to Mario Montez who I met about three years ago. I met him because I was re-doing Warhol’s screen tests. He had been hidden for 35 years up until fall 2009, and then I found out he was coming out of retirement. He was on my list as somebody that I wanted to do a screen test with. We met and we hit it off.
Sarah Maple: ‘an artist and a female artist’
1 February 2013 • Yvette
I like playing with the idea of what it means to be a woman today, what is expected of me and how I want to challenge that. I want to bring things to the surface that we subconsciously accept as the ‘norm’.
Matthew Houlding: The Oceanic
16 January 2013 • Yvette
Everyone has their own history within the bigger picture. I tend to use things or appropriate things, fit them to my own imagination and personal history.
Eleanor Moreton: ‘I See the Bones in the River’
24 November 2012 • Yvette
In some ways the huge burden of painting, its historical baggage, has been part of its attraction for me.
Collecting Performance Art
22 October 2012 • Yvette
Yvette Greslé talks to Bob Lee of The Collective , a founder member of a growing national network of art collectors who buy and share contemporary art within individual groups.
Jabulani Maseko: Film Africa 2012
22 October 2012 • Yvette
South African born artist Jabulani Maseko will present a performance piece for Film Africa 2012. The performance will take place… Read More
Interview with Bedwyr Williams
13 October 2012 • Yvette
Yvette Greslé talks to Bedwyr Williams at the opening of ‘Dear Both’ at Ceri Hand Gallery
Moving Image Fair: Interview with Edward Winkleman
13 October 2012 • Yvette
‘Moving Image Fair’ is a rare opportunity to see a wide range of moving image practices in the same space, in London.
Frieze: What is international?
13 October 2012 • Yvette
At Frieze London I was curious about the idea of internationalism and what this might look like
Helen Benigson aka Princess Belsize Dollar
4 October 2012 • Yvette
An emerging artist to look out for, Benigson’s performances and colour saturated videos, objects and installations register the phenomena of the present.
Frieze: Penny Siopis at Prince Charles Cinema
22 September 2012 • Yvette
‘This is a true story’ is a screening of four short films by South African artist Penny Siopis.
David Blandy at the Brighton Digital Festival, 2012
17 September 2012 • Yvette
The exhibition transforms the Brighton Phoenix Gallery into a riotous gaming arcade, with film projections, computer games, life-sized cut-out figures, comics, posters, Lego models, drawings…
