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In conversation: Amalia Laurent
Questioning how imagination enables human beings to create spaces, Amalia Laurent works with various dyeing techniques she has developed. Through multiple layers of color, formed by dozens of chromatic superimpositions, she gives depth to two-dimensional surfaces, calling on our imagination to create both physical and emotional spaces.
In Conversation: Aïda Sidhoum
A song within a song brings together artists engaging with African and Afro-diasporic musical activities from the 1990s to the 2010s, within the francophone context. It frames genres like French hip-hop and R&B, zouk, raï, and coupé-décalé as necessarily cross-Mediterranean and cross-Atlantic.
In Conversation: Souvenir – Justine Daquin in conversation with Ohan Breiding and Shoghig Halajian
Artists Ohan Breiding and Shoghig Halajian are collaborators who come from divergent backgrounds, spanning photography, moving-image work, and curatorial practice. For this project, they worked with Ohan’s family member Mineko Ikehashi, who shares her experience of surviving a tsunami.
Anh Tran: Et puis, un jour, mon amour tu sors de l’éternité [“and then, one day, my love, you will come out from eternity”]
“I don’t want to deliver an interpretation. I want to leave it off to the viewer to choose the meaning. These are my hope and wish and it relies a lot on spirituality and the individual experiences that viewers are bringing with them when they come to see the paintings. The more I paint, the more it becomes fictional in a way.“ — Anh Trần
In Conversation: Agnes Questionmark
“In my work, I try to recreate that sort of hybrid experience in which I am half human, half sea creature – half terrain, half marine creature. I think since I was a child I always had this strong connection with the sea in a very existential way. There was this possibility of becoming a fish, feeling at home, at ease in a marine environment. It was so natural for me to swim under the water, to breathe under the water, it really changed something in my mind. I don’t feel human – I feel my brain has expanded in that way. Underwater feels like my habitat.” — Agnes Questionmark
In Conversation: Taína Cruz
Taína Cruz is an archivist, artist and researcher based in New York. Curator and writer Charlotte Youkilis spoke with Cruz about her image-making practice, browser-based works, and spirituality.
Camille Liu and Kasia Wozniak in conversation at Sarabande Foundation
Photography is in a very strange place, and I’m definitely chasing the tangible aspect of it.
Shellyne Rodriguez’s Third World Mixtapes: The Infrastructure of Feeling
Shellyne Rodriguez’s Third World Mixtapes: The Infrastructure of Feeling is the artist’s first solo exhibition with PPOW. The show features 22 colored pencil drawings on black paper. Drawing upon specific relationships from Rodriguez’s everyday life in the Bronx, her work transcends space, and time. Through her work at large, Rodriguez poses larger questions about our relationships with one another and our collective struggle for liberation.
In Conversation: Ishuichi Miyako
Philo Cohen’s digital zine documenting her dialogue with Japanese photographer Ishuichi Miyako in 2018.
In Conversation: Aruna D’Souza
A discussion on the politics of precarity, empathy and difference explored through the lens of institutional bias.