Interview with Fiona Banner: 'Words Are Visceral and Slippery'

Fiona Banner with The Bastard Word, 2007, neon parts bent by the artist, paper templates, wire, transformers. Installation, Ikon Gallery 2015. Courtesy the artist and Ikon Gallery. Photo: Stuart Whipps. Working In Words: An Interview With Fiona Banner THE BASTARD WORD. Flickering in the dark, these rough, hand hewn neon letters announce the central concern of Fiona Banner's work: the power, plasticity, and limitations of language and communication. The British artist, of the YBA generation, beca...