Lawrence Weiner on Making a Specific Object Without a Specific Form

On the occasion of Lawrence Weiner: ANYTHING ADDED TO SOMETHING—an exhibition of sculptures created by Lawrence Weiner between 1989 and 2019, on view at our Seoul gallery through December 28—we're revisiting an interview with the artist from 2012. Speaking with curator and critic Hans Ulrich Obrist, Weiner discusses the role of the artist in society and his own work's relationship with the contexts in which it is presented. Here, he explains, "My work, my life has been to make a specific object that doesn't have a specific form, so it can move from one culture to another without being exotic."