HOLLY ROUSSELL
Installation views of “Mo Yi: Me in My Landscape,” on view last fall at UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, curated by Holly Roussell. The exhibition presented more than 300 photographs by the professional-football-player-turned-artist.
“Mo Yi’s work and approach suggest that, like a musician or a painter, the photographer can move with their medium and engage emotion, feeling, and gesture, rather than exclusively relying on their eyes,” writes Holly. “He also challenges the idea of the photographic image as a singular document, sometimes using groups of pictures to represent a subject.”
As a curator, Holly Roussell brings an essential perspective to the Exchange Retreat, which is designed to challenge and inspire the contours of participants’ works-in-progress. Here, in an interview with 1000 Words magazine, she speaks about the role of curator in an image-drenched culture:
“Nowadays there are limitless possibilities: exhibition ideas, artists to collaborate with, magazines, journals, conferences, etc. … Access is no longer the problem for a curator. What to do with that material, however, is challenging. It is our job to edit that information, to filter it, to be inclusive, to be discriminating (in a positive sense), to find artists that need support to share their vision and artworks that are meaningful.”
Holly, do you think we could repost this video?
Holly, it would be amazing if you could talk a bit about how you work with artists in general, and how you plan to work with participants of the Exchange. Even a handful of bullet points would be so helpful. I can shape them into a post and pass them by you for approval.
Alternatively, or perhaps in addition, you could use this space to highlight several artists with whom you’ve worked closely — provided they will allow us to show their work. This “case studies” approach could be a nice way to inspire artists to come benefit from your experience.