Interview

BLECKNER: I think you are well-intentioned, Sebastián, but I wouldn’t call you innocent.

ERRáZURIZ: Well, I’m not dumb. I’m a clever guy.

BLECKNER: [laughs] That’s different.

ERRÁZURIZ: But I still hope for good. I still would want to sacrifice for important things.

BLECKNER: All that’s very general. Are you making paintings these days as well?

ERRÁZURIZ: Yeah, I’m actually doing a couple of paintings with a friend. I’m painting all of my ex-girlfriends with her . . . I work a lot with death and, I guess, in a way they’re all dead. They’re all people who at some point were super-important to me, and I forget them and live on. It’s kind of like taking out that box with their pictures and letters and placing them on the wall and living with them. I’m also painting myself as Saint Sebastian.

BLECKNER: Well, I guess that goes back to the confidence that I noticed.

ERRÁZURIZ: My dad used to place me in front of the Saint Sebastian painting at the National Gallery in London as a kid.

BLECKNER: He had high hopes for you, I suppose.

Ross Bleckner is a New York City-based artist.