MAURIZIO CATTELAN — Why do you do what you do?
DAVID HORVITZ — I’ve spent about three weeks looking at this question every day, and I still don’t have an answer. I don’t know.

MAURIZIO CATTELAN — If you weren’t an artist, what would you be?
DAVID HORVITZ — A gardener. Or maybe a dolphin.

MAURIZIO CATTELAN — Isn’t your work more a caption for the world than an image?
DAVID HORVITZ — Yes.

The Distance of a Day, 2013, digital video, 12 minutes, courtesy of the artist and Chert, Berlin

MAURIZIO CATTELAN — Are your pieces intended to be chronicles of reality?
DAVID HORVITZ — They are chronicles of reality, or chronicles of the imagination. Is the imagination inside…