I’m interested in the evolution of materials in architecture and art, in terms of how the body is represented. If you look at it historically, you see a move from the monolithic materials of classical figures to the fake hollow plaster casts that we use to reproduce them today. It says something about how these days we’re interested in preserving the past, but only visually. There is no material continuity. The materials are more or less insignificant…For me, art is a material language first, and I think that we should look at the world with the same approach. What if we saw things, and thought about them in terms of how they were made rather than what they looked like? (Art in America Magazine’s Q&A with Nick van Woert)
