Christina Quarles – interview: ‘These works are holding onto that slow-fast contrast of a physically still world and this mental chaos’
Created during lockdown, against a backdrop of rising deaths from Covid, the police killing of George Floyd and raging fires across California, the nine new paintings in this show at Pilar Corrias are haunted by melancholy. Quarles spoke to Studio International via Zoom from her studio in Los Angeles.
Christina Quarles: I Won’t Fear Tumbling Or Falling/If We’ll be Joined in Another World
Pilar Corrias, London
8 October – 21 November 2020
Interview by ELIZABETH FULLERTON
Film edited by MARTIN KENNEDY
