While researching for this interview, I came across a quote by Yayoi Kusama, “Every time I have had a problem, I have confronted it with the axe of art.” So simply put, this statement perfectly sums up for me the immense power that art holds, its mind opening and altering capabilities. It struck me that this is what the Guerrilla Girls collective have been doing for almost 40 years, using the axe of art their way. With a playful, yet unapologetically direct fierceness, Guerrilla Girls utilize unforgettably bold advertising-style imagery, statistics, and humor, to illuminate not just the discrimination and injustice in the art world itself, but in the wider world. At the time of this interview, the election in…