Fan Letter

The Brazilian artist brought food, film, art and love to her social project

‘I was 13, with a group of friends, and it was my first time hearing anything so Black and British – and, also, so working class’

‘The world certainly wasn’t perfect but that night I didn’t have to contend with an unmadeness’

‘Some have mattered more to the living Jalal, others to the dead one indulging in jouissance’

‘I have always chosen to listen to my heart and stick to my convictions, rather than yielding to reality’

‘I felt as though I’d walked in on what the future of art-making could be: a curation of time and space between us and the world in which we exist’

‘When I read that essay, I literally feel some kind of space opening up: I can breathe’

‘Through the doors of underworld rose a mind structured by languages inherited from the dead’

‘It’s a tenacious act of enthusiasm within Europe’s changing political landscape’

‘I would like to dedicate this tribute to all of Zidane’s fans (of whom I am one)’

‘Never before has a document of an event given such a vivid sense of what things may look like after we are gone’

The artist creates a specially commissioned work for frieze in response to Yoko Ono’s legendary 1965 performance ‘Cut Piece’

‘These are photographs in which moments – and lives – are constantly moving from then to now, bodies finding echoes in the world around them’

‘Enemy Kitchen makes Iraqi culture visible in the US beyond war, producing an alternative discourse and social space.’

‘This is the passing of time visualized through a contrapuntal freezing of it’

‘Every Wednesday, we would drink and watch Italian masterpieces – Fellini, Pasolini, Visconti – without subtitles’

‘Burdekin was a feminist, speculative, dystopian writer of essential texts’

‘It would be easy to cry to this tune, but difficult to dance to it’

‘Her strange, thinking surfaces have become the artworks I think about the most’

‘At the first site, the freedom of the United States of America is honoured; at the second, the history of its immigrants is conserved’