We’re looking for an emerging arts writer from Dazed Club to interview Swiss artist Renée Levi ahead of her new commission, September, at the Hayward Gallery.
Opening on 23 September, September is a large-scale outdoor artwork that translates Levi’s painterly, gestural style onto the Hayward Gallery’s iconic brutalist architecture. It marks Levi’s first large-scale public commission in the UK and is co-commissioned by the Hayward Gallery and Audemars Piguet Contemporary.
The commission marks a collaboration between Audemars Piguet Contemporary and the Hayward Gallery, bringing together two organisations committed to supporting new approaches within contemporary art. For Audemars Piguet Contemporary, the project reflects its focus on giving artists the space to push their practices into unexpected territory. Having followed Levi’s work for years, the organisation has worked closely with the Hayward Gallery to push forward a project that treats the building’s iconic surface as part of the artwork. “Levi approaches the Hayward Gallery’s exterior as more than a backdrop, responding to its rhythm, materiality and scale,” says Audrey Teichmann, Curator at Audemars Piguet Contemporary.
The selected writer will be commissioned to interview Renée Levi, with the resulting Q&A published on Dazed Digital.
The interview will be part of a wider Dazed Club collaboration with Audemars Piguet Contemporary, which will continue with an exclusive Dazed Club event at Southbank Centre’s St Paul’s Pavilion on 12 October. The event will bring together Dazed Clubbers and the wider arts community around Levi’s work and the ideas behind the commission.
Head to the Dazed Club app here to apply and be in with a chance of winning the competition.