Jack Leirner in conversation with Adele Nelson

The third title in the Conversations series chronicles conversations between Brazilian conceptual artist Jac Leirner and art historian Adele Nelson. In this first detailed study of her creative process, Nelson interviews the artist about her work spanning more than two decades of her career, with an introduction by Robert Storr.

Jac Leirner, born in 1961 in São Paulo, emerged in the early 1990s at the forefront of a new generation of transnational artists who took the art of the 1960s and 1970s as a starting point for their own creations. Her meticulously constructed works using everyday objects, such as cigarette packs, plastic bags, cutlery, and money, create, in Leirner's words, "a space for objects that don't have one."