Explore Julia Peyton-Jones’ transformative leadership. From redefining the Serpentine Galleries to forming the pioneering Pavilion program and her shift to the commercial art gallery world: “Art is like breathing or sleeping - a fundamental part of life that gives inspiration and provides nurture to the soul. I want people to share this experience.”

Oscar Salguero is New York- based designer and curator, running Interspecies Library, the first archive dedicated to the study and advancement of artists’ books exploring alternative interspecies futures: “Most of my research comes from going to bookstores. Also, I get a lot of clues on current trends from visiting fairs like Printed Matter’s New York Art Book Fair, which I think is the largest and most comprehensive in the world. On the other hand, I learn a lot from going to the Antiquarian Book Fair in New York. While the former focuses more on artists’ books, zines, by active publishers and artists (at accessible prices), the latter deals more with rare, historical materials.”

We are joined by artist Lungiswa Gqunta to discover the versatile journey that is her artistic practice—across printmaking, sculpture and installation: “The things I work(ed) with, the objects or the elements of my art, came from various people and were previously used for different purposes. In this sense, my practice feels very conscious. I would not say that I give objects a new lease of life - it is more of creating cycles and new purposes.”

Lawrence Lek’s interdisciplinary art blending AI, gaming, and architecture is explored in the latest conversation for Sursuma: ”In architecture, I felt close to the conceptual ideas that were not grounded in theory but more drawn from lived experience. I found the stories of how buildings or cities got made much more compelling than the theories. It made much more sense when I understood how a civilization was founded or why people moved from point A to B.”