The Interview (a transcript) comprises a series of Maluka's signature paintings, head-and-shoulders portraits that draw stylistically on the history of painting and mark-making with a street culture edge.

Maluka has a particular interest in minorities, migration and the perception of immigrants in various societies. The point of departure for his portraits is usually a photograph, often torn from a fashion magazine, of a person to whom he senses some immediate connection. From this beginning he proceeds to create characters, to give them personalities - glamorous, sexy, cool, sultry - and to place them in contexts that buzz and pulsate. He often draws an analogy between putting on a play and an exhibition - there are reasons why the word 'show' is used to describe both: each requires characters, actors, a set, a script, an audience and the inevitable critics …