American visual artist and musician Kim Gordon, formerly of Sonic Youth, discusses her recent show of paintings, creative collaboration and new ventures
Kim Gordon – the American musician, singer and songwriter turned visual artist – disavows being an icon. She even published a book calledin 2020 to drive home the point. But she is an inspirational figure for many, us included, and has a place in our recentWe look to our cultural heroes and make field notes for living, thinking that if we listen, watch, read what they do closely enough, we can absorb through some osmotic process a bit of what has us in their thrall.
I guess that the thing is that everything looks better on an iPhone, including some of my art I think [laughs]. But, you don't have a sense of the scale of anything. You don’t have a sense of context, really. So it's kind of covering up just by what it's not showing. It’s more a person’s choice that tells you something rather than what they’re shooting. back in 1983 called ‘I’m really scared when I kill in my dreams’.
I like being in Body/Head with Bill [Nace] and I have this solo band that I tour with, but I don’t necessarily want to be in a band with more than one person anymore. W*: So when you're creating, do you always have a message in mind or is it something that organically emerges during the process?It helps if there is a definite show and a context, but mostly it's just having an idea. Like I did this series of paintings for a show at the Museum im Bellpark outside Lausanne last summer [2022].
Installation view: ‘Kim Gordon for Design Office feat. In-House Photography by Josephine Pryde’, Museum im Bellpark Kriens, 2022
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