EG: ...not quite the same?
LIV: ...it’s not his black though.
LIV: Yeah.
EG: He’s got the rights to it now. Completely.
EG: Recently, Anish Kapoor bought the rights to the blackest black – Vantablack?
LIV: Oh bugger off. He can’t buy Vantablack… don’t be an asshole. Just give me time, I’ll mine my own gold... in Ghana—CCQ
LIV:Yes! It creates what is perceived as negative space: imagine looking at my canvas and the black has no dimension, everything else is floating…
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EG: ...you need your own colour, we’ve got Yves Klein blue, Anish Kapoor has his own black…
Lina Viktor’s work is part of Hyperion, Union Square 6 May –10 May and The Woven Image, The Cooper Gallery, Cambridge, MA, 19 May – 20 July 2016
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