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As part of Speciwomen's 2024 Magnet Design Fellowship program, architect-designers Ana Batlle Cabral and Signe Ferguson collaborated on reimagining Speciwomen’s physical space, prioritizing adaptability, sustainability, and an ethos of care. In this conversation with Philo Cohen, they discuss their fellowship projects, including modular design solutions and participatory workshops that engaged the community.
In The Studio: Asa Hiramatsu
Exclusive re-transcription of Philo Cohen’s visit to Tokyo-based painter Asa Hiramitsu from 2018.
In Conversation: Ishuichi Miyako
Philo Cohen’s digital zine documenting her dialogue with Japanese photographer Ishuichi Miyako in 2018.
Portrait en Rouje: Ayak Chout
Ayak Chout is a mixed-media visual artist based in Wellington, New Zealand. She moves through photography, jewelry making and design and has been making art since she was a teenager.
Portrait en Rouje: Martinet & Texereau
Martinet & Texereau is a collaborative project between two artists based in Paris, France. Using drawing as their primary medium, they create all kinds of landscape studies, hiding themselves behind a single identity.
Portrait en Rouje: Inna Modja
Inna is a musician and activist based in between Paris and Portugal. She is an ambassador at the United Nations and actively advocates for women’s rights by working closely with La Maison de Femmes, a space that has been created to protect women and their rights from domestic and sexual violences.
Portrait en Rouje: Gabby Steib
Gabby is a mixed-media artist working primarily with images and the archive. She is based between New Orleans and Mexico City.
In Conversation: Aruna D’Souza
A discussion on the politics of precarity, empathy and difference explored through the lens of institutional bias.
Portrait en Rouje: Sienna Miles Fekete
Sienna is a producer based in Brooklyn, NY. She is one of the Co-founders of Chroma, a cross-disciplinary creative studio founded in 2017 along with her two partners June Canedo and Ladin Awad. Their platform hopes to diversify industries and create spaces that centers on raising consciousness around the experiences of womxn of color in the arts and media.
I met Sienna on a Friday morning in her cosy, sun bathed apartment in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn. She made me tea, we sat in her window on her couch and exchanged ideas on starting one’s own platform for change, collaboration, sustainability in the media and the importance of mothers.
In The Studio: Two Tree Studios
Conversation with New York based designer Allison Samuels at the head and origin of Two Tree Studios.
In The Studio: Johanna Tagada
Conversation with London based multi-media artist Johanna Tagada.
In The Studio: Cara Marie Piazza
Conversation with New York based natural dyer and artisan Cara Marie Piazza.
In Conversation: Between Girls
with Hollis Baker and Grace Coudal
Cohen, Notebook
Stepping in: Beth Gill’s Pitkin Grove at The Joyce Theater
Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960-1985 at Brooklyn Museum
As I reread my notes from last Thursday’s visit to the Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960-1985 show at the Brooklyn Museum, I slowly slip into the skin of the woman I was before entering the first room of the exhibition. I try to remember, what were my hopes like? How did I think of the world? And how many women do I still need to know about?
Shiori Ito: Why I Speak Up
Shiori Ito is the first woman to speak up about rape in Japan. Last year, she broke the silence of a layered taboo and is now fighting for her rights and the ones of victims in Japan. Report of a conference with Ito upon her evolution, her beliefs and how she stands up against the corrupted societal pressure in Japan.
On Top: NYC
When photographer Natalie Yang posted that she had some available slots to shoot in NYC, a new project popped up in my mind. I admire the way her lens lands on the subjects she chooses to capture, always strategically playing with light, taming colors. We came together to portray four young NYC based talented artists last June.
Obviously, I am a feminist
In Conversation with Eduardo Lago