Artist Diana Al-Hadid Talks to Vogue Before Her Exhibition at the Secession in Vienna — vogue.com

“Maybe you can help me out,” Diana Al-Hadid says to me with a soft smile on her face. She’s standing in the single air-conditioned room of her East Williamsburg studio in front of a desktop computer. It’s late summer, and final decisions must be made for her upcoming exhibition at the Secession in Vienna, Austria. Namely, she needs to decide on a title. “There is a danger to titles,” she notes with a tilt of her head. “There is something nice about them, but it can be another mark on the piece.” She also needs to decide which of her early sketches should be included in the catalogue. Over the past few weeks, a large installation she created for the exhibition—consisting of a large interlocking arrangement of sculptures and additional panels—has been shipped off to Europe, and in the heat of the summer, you can feel the negative space that its departure has created throughout the studio. The opening date, September 11, feels awfully close, but Al-Hadid is very calm about all the loose ends and unanswered questions.

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