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Kaspars Groševs, 427 Gallery: ‘We don’t really care who is or isn’t a “real” artist—we care if the art they create is subjectively good or not and if there is something more to it than meets the eye and if the person creating it understands what we are trying to do or not. I’m 100% sure there are a lot of people in Riga who think that what we do isn’t a “real” art. But we also don’t care. We show stuff that we believe in, we work with artists that we love and for us not much else matters’.
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Graham Harman: ‘Some people may be using ‘weird’ in a wider sense than I normally do. For me, the weird has a precise technical sense: a situation in which objects exist in tension with their own qualities rather than being reducible to them. Admittedly, this is also how I define aesthetics more generally, so for me there is a bit of weirdness in all genuine aesthetic experience’.
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