Meet the artists // June 2020

As our current resident artists will soon exhibit their work in our [Virtual] Open Studios, we took the opportunity to take a closer look at them and their work and interviewed them on GlogauAIR’s Instagram.
Read the interview below and get to know our resident artists better!

25hr sailing

What do you feel when you create?
Just routine. That’s why not so special feeling.

Name one artist, musician, writer…that inspires you:
Candida Höfer, Kim Trio, Paul Auster

What is the relationship between landscape, architecture and memories of the past?
A journey of imagination in an unplotted timeline.

 

Annelise Forster

What do you feel when you create?
Free, escape into intense emotional states.

Name one artist, musician, writer…that inspires you:
Cecily Brown

How does music impact your work?
Holds the ability to control all elements of my work and drives emotions I feel through the process.

 

Elisa Garcia de la Huerta

What do you feel when you create?
I feel present, engaged, connected, uplifted.

Name one artist, musician, writer…that inspires you:
Cecilia Vicuña, Éliane Radigue, Pema Chödrön

How do you think body positivity can be influenced by nature?
As we appreciate and understand it fluid diversity we can embody ourselves with more grace.

 

Eitan Ritz

What do you feel when you create?
My internal dialogue and anxieties.

Name one artist, musician, writer…that inspires you:
Meredith Monk

What is your artistic process to explore the ‘spaces of translation’?
Observing something around me and collecting and collating things to re-view that moment.

 

Kovács/O’Doherty

What do you feel when you create?
excitement-confusion-frustration-repeat

Name one artist, musician, writer…that inspires you:
AL, PO, BT, ER, HD, FS, AT, PV …and many more.

Transportation fills our cities with noise, why did you decide to retrieve the sound of abandoned trains in your project?
“The invention of the ship was also the invention of the shipwreck” — Paul Virilio

 

Sònia Toneu

What do you feel when you create?
Everything disappears, the act of creation remains.

Name one artist, musician, writer…that inspires you:
Julie Mehretu

What’s the relationship between you and the landscape?
Is linked to my experiences in it. Everything that my senses and my emotions collect.