In the studio with Nikita Gale
Nikita Gale creates large-scale installations employing objects and materials such as barricades, concrete, spotlights and audio elements. Gale’s latest commission for Chisenhale Gallery in London, titled ‘IN A DREAM YOU CLIMB THE STAIRS’, takes Toni Morrison’s novel ‘Song of Solomon’ (1977) as its starting point, imagining the home of the character Circe, who lives with a pack of dogs, as the concrete remnants of a theater space.
"Where is your studio?
My studio is in downtown Los Angeles. It’s a very large kind of warehouse space in a purpose-built studio building. I think there are about 60 other studios on my side of the building, but everyone has very different schedules so it doesn’t feel crowded with people. I don’t really like socialising at my studio. There are some studio buildings that are very social but I think that would be quite distracting for me. I like to keep to myself and to focus on the work.
What’s your studio routine?
It’s very erratic and tends to be determined by the projects I’m working on at that moment in time. Sometimes my studio routine involves me being in my apartment reading and doing research for a couple of hours. When I’m being really good about it, that research process happens at my studio and it is helpful to have that separate space to go and work. I travel a lot but when I’m actually in LA, I probably go to the studio about three times a week." — richelleart.com, July 25, 2022
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