Francesca Harvey 11/14/22 Francesca Harvey 11/14/22

Okay Kaya’s New Album, SAP, Is A Concept Album About Consciousness

Francesca Harvey, friend of Speciwomen, reviews Okay Kaya’s newest record, SAP, out now on Jagjaguwar.

Milah Libin 11/7/22 Milah Libin 11/7/22

In The Studio: Ana Benaroya

Speciwomen friend and colleague, founder of Dizzy Magazine, Milah Libin spoke with Benaroya about possibilities, reference and X-Men.

Lauren Guilford 6/13/22 Lauren Guilford 6/13/22

Kazuko Miyamoto at Japan Society

Philo Cohen 8/10/21 Philo Cohen 8/10/21

In The Studio: Asa Hiramatsu

Exclusive re-transcription of Philo Cohen’s visit to Tokyo-based painter Asa Hiramitsu from 2018.

Alexandre Colliex 7/9/21 Alexandre Colliex 7/9/21

Jeanne Revay: An artist’s sleight of hand

Jeanne Revay just turned 33, the age of prophecies and epiphanies. A visit to her Paris studio can offer such an epiphany. That of a formidably gifted hand, that of a young woman with a surgeon’s obsession for the hand and the lines it can conjure up out of ashes.

Of those 33 years, Jeanne has lived 25 of them just across the street from the Rodin Museum in Paris. She has grown up visiting her neighbor’s accumulation of works in plaster, in marble, and in bronze. Such daily proximity is enough to trigger a destiny. To become an artist. And Jeanne is certainly not the first one to be enraptured with Rodin. She does admit a secret kinship with Camille Claudel and her daring lyricism, perhaps even less constrained than that of Rodin.

Philo Cohen 5/4/21 Philo Cohen 5/4/21

In Conversation: Ishuichi Miyako

Philo Cohen’s digital zine documenting her dialogue with Japanese photographer Ishuichi Miyako in 2018.

Philo Cohen 9/2/20 Philo Cohen 9/2/20

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.

Philo Cohen 8/1/20 Philo Cohen 8/1/20

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.

Philo Cohen 7/30/20 Philo Cohen 7/30/20

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.

Philo Cohen 6/4/20 Philo Cohen 6/4/20

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.

Anna Prudhomme 5/31/20 Anna Prudhomme 5/31/20

The Virgin Suicides by Sofia Coppola: inside teenage melancholia

This weekly column looks upon iconic women of cinema through some of their most impacting female characters. From different times and places, each of these directors dreamt and painted roles that enlighten our conception of women in various ways. Far from the patriarchal character representation of Black and White films or from the modern superheroines on screen, these women shine in the vernacular through precise portrayals. Glamorous glutton, grieving nurses, avenging angel, or suicidal enchantress: each hide somehow a part of their creators as a concealed message making them even more genuine.

This week at the center of our interest is the seraphic Lux Lisbon from the 2000 movie The Virgin Suicides.

Anna Prudhomme 5/16/20 Anna Prudhomme 5/16/20

The Mourning Forest by Naomi Kawase: a wander into grief.

This weekly column looks upon iconic women of cinema through some of their most impacting female characters. From different times and places, each of these directors dreamt and painted roles that enlighten our conception of women in various ways. Far from the patriarchal character representation of Black and White films or from the modern superheroines on screen, these women shine in the vernacular through precise portrayals. Glamorous glutton, grieving nurses, avenging angel, or suicidal enchantress: each hide somehow a part of their creators as a concealed message making them even more genuine.

This week at the center of our interest is the poignant nurse Machiko from The Mourning Forest, 2007.

Philo Cohen 5/1/20 Philo Cohen 5/1/20

In Conversation: Aruna D’Souza

A discussion on the politics of precarity, empathy and difference explored through the lens of institutional bias.

Anna Prudhomme 4/30/20 Anna Prudhomme 4/30/20

Atlantics by Mati Diop: a ghostly love story

This weekly column looks upon iconic women of cinema through some of their most impacting female characters. From different times and places, each of these directors dreamt and painted roles that enlighten our conception of women in various ways. Far from the patriarchal character representation of Black and White films or from the modern superheroines on screen, these women shine in the vernacular through precise portrayals. Glamorous glutton, grieving nurses, avenging angel, or suicidal enchantress: each hide somehow a part of their creators as a concealed message making them even more genuine.

This week at the center of our interest is the charming Ada from the 2019 movie Atlantics.

Philo Cohen 4/22/20 Philo Cohen 4/22/20

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.

Anna Prudhomme 4/22/20 Anna Prudhomme 4/22/20

Daisies by Vera Chytilovà: a philosophical farce

This weekly column looks upon iconic women of cinema through some of their most impacting female characters. From different times and places, each of these directors dreamt and painted roles that enlighten our conception of women in various ways. Far from the patriarchal character representation of Black and White films or from the modern superheroines on screen, these women shine in the vernacular through precise portrayals. Glamorous glutton, grieving nurses, avenging angel, or suicidal enchantress: each hide somehow a part of their creators as a concealed message making them even more genuine.

This week, we are exploring the (not so) ingenue Mari I and Mari II from the 1966 movie Daisies.