Jessica Vaughn investigates the social lives of everyday objects and materials: how they speak beside and beyond themselves; the ease with which they are overlooked because of their concrete functions; their value systems; their interactions. In conversation with Eliel Jones, the artist discusses processes of representation, reproduction as fabrication, the materiality of labor, and how all these inform her latest show, Exit Strategy at Emalin, London.

Immersing the spectator in site-specific installations that she herself compares to “studio visits,” both intimate and in flux, US artist Sarah Sze combines intricate systems of objects and images across multiple mediums, from sculpture to painting, drawing, printmaking, and video. On the occasion of her first solo show in an Italian gallery, the artist talks of arranged randomness; balancing craftsmanship and technology; and how Rome and rocks can narrate the experience of time.