For as long as I can remember, I wanted to be a contemporary art curator. I’m often asked if I ever wanted to be an artist, but I never did. I love the curator’s role. To me, curators are at the centre of contemporary art, straddling the worlds of the artist (production) and the audience (reception). We make exhibitions (like artists), but are also readers of art (like audiences). And we can be mobile in a way that artists can’t. To succeed, artists have to be invested in their brands, to perfect their oeuvres. They can’t stray far. They have to stick to their knitting even as the wheel turns, as the spotlight moves on, just in case it returns. But curators aren’t so constrained. We can be fickle, attracted to every new emerging thing. We are the spotlight.
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