This week we connected Shertise Solano to Kaspar Dejong and Kaspar to Shertise.
If you could decide to be a different artist tomorrow, what kind of artist would you be?
I don’t think I would want to be a different artist than I am today. But if I would have to change my practice into something else I would probably become an archeologist, reading traces and investigating places, historical sites and from there on being able to find old and lost artifacts, seems like a really satisfying occupation.
Who is the person you trust the most during your process?
My biggest trust and confidant is my girlfriend, she’s always there when I am facing a challenging decision. Besides that Ruben Raven became an important sparring partner. We’ve built a important relation over the past years and working towards our duo show in Antwerpen we have deeply accessed and shared each other’s practice and creative processes.
What kind of experience would you like to have at UNFAIR23 that would make you the happiest person at the fair?
I am excited about the circular concept from Verter Studios for the lay out of the fair. Within that setting me and Ruben will create a duo presentation that shall play with the setting of an art fair and challenge new ways of displaying our work.
Kaspar Dejong and Ruben Raven “Places Without Faces” Installation view at DMW gallery Antwerp. (2023)
If you’re in the studio and you’re not feeling it, how do you get back into the flow?
By listening to Julius Eastman – Stay on it. Stay on it became my mantra in the studio, and if that doesn’t work just leave the studio and wait till the body knows what the next step will be.
What was your last “eureka” moment?
This book, an interview with Alejandro Jodorowsky.
If you had an infinite budget and could purchase one work of art, what would you buy and why?
For me, to have an infinite budget would make buying art completely irrelevant. Instead, I would use the money to set up open studios and workshops for everyone, especially young people, who feel the need to create but never had the opportunity.
Shertise Solano, studio detail. (2023)
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