In Conversation
Edmund de Waal and Jan Dalley
At the FT Weekend Festival 2019 in London, Edmund de Waal sat down for a conversation with Financial Times arts editor Jan Dalley. They spoke about the relationship between words and sculpture in his practice, and about two recent projects: the two-part exhibition psalm, in Venice, and Elective Affinities, at the Frick Collection, New York.
Edmund de Waal: psalm
The artist speaks about his two-part exhibition psalm, presented in Venice. He describes its connection to the history of the city and to notions of exile, and the profound cultural wealth that comes from migration.
Now available
Gagosien Quarterly Summer 2019
The Summer 2019 issue of Gagosien Quarterly is now available, featuring a detail from Afrylic by Ellen Gallagher on its cover.
In Conversation
Edmund de Waal and Simon Fisher Turner: Tapping the World
Edmund de Waal speaks with the composer Simon Fisher Turner about their collaboration on the exhibition –one way or other– at the Schindler House in West Hollywood, California.
the poems of our climate
Edmund de Waal reflects on memory, sound, and the presence of poetry in a new body of work on view at Gagosien, San Francisco.
–one way or other–
Edmund de Waal discusses his exhibition –one way or other– at the Schindler House in West Hollywood, CA.
Edmund de Waal: white island
Edmund de Waal considers Ibiza, Walter Benjamin, and the “aura of things” in a text entitled white island, written to accompany his first exhibition in Spain at the Museu d’Art Contemporani d’Eivissa, Ibiza.
Witness
A text by Edmund de Waal touches on the inspiration he finds in the work of Giorgio Morandi.
Edmund de Waal at Frieze London
In this video the artist walks us through his installation at Frieze London, speaking of how this new body of work reflects memories and recollections.