art ALICJA KWADE on the roof of the metropolitan museum in new york, a sculptural constellation emulates the laws of physics and general relativity recreating the forces that hold the universe together interview by DONATIEN GRAU PARAPIVOT, 2019, photographed OLIVIER ZAHM DONATIEN GRAU — How do you deal with the relation between time and space? ALICJA KWADE — I don’t deal with it — it deals with me. DONATIEN GRAU — Do you think the cosmos can be known? And does art play a role in this knowledge? ALICJA KWADE — No, I don’t think we can ever find out what the cosmos actually is. I am afraid we will always stay this rather poor animal methaphysicum, able to ask but not to answer. Art has the quality of not being forced to follow any rules. It allows a mixture between intuition, vision, and knowledge. So, yes, it might be…