Ahead of her exhibition at Camden Arts Centre, Amy Sillman talks to Imelda Barnard about the comic impulse, landline phones, and her love/hate relationship with painting
IB: You’re taking over all three gallery spaces at Camden Arts Centre for your solo show. What will the exhibition consist of?
AS: It’s an exhibition of some recent and new works from 2016–18, including paintings, drawings and an animation. It’s a huge challenge to take over the whole space. I’ve made a new piece for Gallery 3, a large space that forced me to experiment. I’m not usually an installation artist and so I had to figure out how to approach something with a particular architecture in mind. The gallery will feature 12 or more double-sided printed and drawn works which the viewer will walk around and which are hung from a wire like a clothes line – each side has its own kind of language.