Alicja Kwade on making art during COVID-19 lockdown | STUDIO VISITS

At the beginning of the pandemic in May 2020, Artforum invited Alicja Kwade for a virtual studio visit. Kwade walked us through her Oberschöneweide, Germany, studio, documenting the experience via her iPhone.
Showcasing works in progress investigating “corona time,” Kwade visualizes the distorted hours of lockdown through experiments with fruit, clock arms, and candles. In this excerpt, Kwade demonstrates how to create a “quantum lemon,” or what she calls a “portrait of a piece of matter.”
“Alicja Kwade and Agnes Martin: Space Between the Lines” is on view now at Pace gallery in Los Angeles, through June 29.