Phyllida Barlow: An age of fallen monuments

“All our lives are about constantly losing. The moment is always disappearing, like sand between our fingers. So what is it, we are actually left with?,“ asks British sculptor Phyllida Barlow. The language of sculpture is not about perfection or exactness, according to Phyllida Barlow (b. 1944). It’s about approximation, about recovering moments. “I like the language of sculpture which is about space and time, smell and temperature. Opposite photography, sculpture constantly rejects the single image becaus