Zowaar schilderkunst in Metropolis M, een intrigerend interview:
Anj Smith, Carnivora Deluxe, 2006, olie op doek
‘Well, a specific example of a social trajectory that fascinates me in this way would be the relentless quest for novelty and cuteness which seems to permeate aspects of social consciousness. This parasitic insistence on surface and status totally frustrates me, yet I also find these things absorbing and seductive. It’s this tension and the intensity of it which intrigues me.’
‘I don’t agree that death is an “outmoded theme”, particularly as making work (in itself) inevitably has existential implications in the reflection of certain experiences and social contexts. I think this is probably as specific as I can be, as I’m in no way using particular “motifs” to illustrate any conceptual “agenda” regarding “death”. My engagement with ideas surrounding this subject is more intuitive, nuanced and in places more abstractly realised, like just quoting a certain fragility in a particular place, for example.’
http://www.metropolism.org/page.php?node_id=229&l=nl
http://www.wdw.nl/participant.php?part_id=397&id=135&taal=_ned