Currently on view at the Latvian National Museum of Art as part of the Purvītis Prize 2025 finalists’ exhibition, Watery Day’s Eye has taken on a slightly new form, adapting itself to the architecture and atmosphere of the museum space.
The American artist Tara Donovan makes sculptures, installations, prints and drawings with materials that can be found around the home, such as straws, plastic cups, drawing pins and pencils.
“I try to combine cleverness, humor, and aesthetics to explore themes such as urbanization, human nature, good and evil, truth, and artificial constructs.”
With a successful solo exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art on view in New York, the artist speaks with Whitewall about her process and approach to fashion, on the eve of the Met Gala where she was dressed by Fear of God.
YaYa Yajie Liang’s genre-defying paintings fuse abstraction and figuration to explore metamorphosis, materiality, and the deep entanglement between nature and the body—redefining what it means to paint in a time of ecological and existential flux.