New Forms of Articulation: Sumayya Vally in conversation with Esther Choi — Deem

Artworks don’t manage knowledge—they channel it. It takes time and attention to understand an artwork’s meaning. Each piece demands a process of reconciliation, and a merging of two contexts: the artwork’s own history and the viewer’s private knowledge network. When it’s placed in a new context, its meaning evolves and expands elastically. It store... See more

This contemplation and collaboration was an incredibly new extension of how I’ve been thinking about work lately. It probably exists in the space my friend Yatú would call “concept composing”. Really working through the forms of language and articulation to reach a shared embodiment.

I’ve been meditating on simplicity a lot. The good life feels lik... See more