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What I do in my life is create a climate that allows me to be visited by my artistic muse. Your mood, if you’re open to it, tells you what it wants you to be. Sometimes I just sit in a state of complete stillness and wait for my ideas to come through to me. Or when decorating my apartment – constantly redecorating and repainting is a huge part of my artistic practice. If I am getting ready for a new show, I’ll repaint the walls tile red, scrub all the windows, and move all the objects from one side of the house to another. I’ll spend eight hours a day in here excavating and reacclimating myself to the paper, getting all my materials ready like I am preparing for battle. I gather all my fetishes, all my war instruments together, polishing my guns, as it were.
– Kembra Pfahler, as told to Michael Bullock in Kembra Pfahler (Rizzoli, 2026)
Emalin is pleased to present Hungry for Trash, an exhibition of new works by American artist Kembra Pfahler (b. 1961, Hermosa Beach, US), the artist's…
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What I do in my life is create a climate that allows me to be visited by my artistic muse. Your mood, if you’re open to it, tells you what it wants you to be. Sometimes I just sit in a state of complete stillness and wait for my ideas to come through to me. Or when decorating my apartment – constantly redecorating and repainting is a huge part of my artistic practice. If I am getting ready for a new show, I’ll repaint the walls tile red, scrub all the windows, and move all the objects from one side of the house to another. I’ll spend eight hours a day in here excavating and reacclimating myself to the paper, getting all my materials ready like I am preparing for battle. I gather all my fetishes, all my war instruments together, polishing my guns, as it were.
– Kembra Pfahler, as told to Michael Bullock in Kembra Pfahler (Rizzoli, 2026)
Emalin is pleased to present Hungry for Trash, an exhibition of new works by American artist Kembra Pfahler (b. 1961, Hermosa Beach, US), the artist's…
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