Interview(s)

Interview(s) is a collaboration by Heman Chong & Anthony Marcellini that begins with a series of assumptions about the social life of objects.

1. Objects can represent words or sentences in a conversation.
    
2. An object moves from insignificance to significance (and vice-versa) when transferred from one person to another.
    
3. All objects have power by way of their relationships with other objects, ourselves included.
    
4. There are other levels of value to objects, on top of the values certain systems attach to it, personal, monetary, symbolic, nostalgic, which shift and change over time, sometimes quickly and sometimes very slowly. 
    
5. Time slows down and speeds up due to our relationships with objects.
    
6. Objects tell stories.
    
7. Stories are also objects. 
    

The two artists have each produced a collection of 100 objects over a period of four months without discussing what these objects are with each other. One week before the exhibition begins they will meet and arrange these objects onto tables with mirrored tops. The exhibition is a reflection of the ways in which two individuals enter into a dialogue with each other. These compositions are entitled Interview(s) and perform the word’s etymology, from the French entrevue, or s'entrevoir: to see each other. 

Media: Found and handmade objects on mirrored tables
Dimensions: Variable
Year: 2012
Location: Wilkinson Gallery, London