Venus X Interviews A$AP Ferg for MoMA
ASAP Ferg always knew art was his destiny, he just never anticipated that the shapes and colors of his imagination would be heard through verses and not seen on a canvas. Until now. In anticipation of his first-ever Warm Up appearance at MoMA PS1 on Saturday, August 12, series curator Venus X chats with the self-described [Harlem] Renaissance man about the hot roofs and basements of his childhood, that special creative vibration that only exists in New York, and going back to basics: finding inspiration in silence and putting his lines back into paint.
Ferg and Venus were photographed by Neil Aline — a New York–based DJ and photographer who played as part of the very first Warm Up lineup in 1998 — in the MoMA PS1 courtyard under Lumen by Jenny Sabin Studio, this year’s Young Architects Program winner.
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