Perhaps you, like me, know Jade Guanaro Kuriki-Olivo better as Puppies Puppies, the pseudonym-cum-persona that the artist crafted in 2010. Puppies Puppies has historically ventriloquized, masked, and absented herself, both in the context of white-cube installations and performances and in the durational performance of being Puppies Puppies.
As a vast retrospective opens in New York, the US artist discusses a 15th-century female author who has inspired her, the “purpose of life” and why she believes her work is only now being properly understood