Interview
FRAMING RESILIENCE: AN INTERVIEW WITH SUSAN MEISELAS
In this exclusive interview, we engage with acclaimed photographer and artist Susan Meiselas (b.1948, USA), whose work has profoundly impacted the field of visual documentation, particularly in the context of conflict and social justice. Over her extensive career, Meiselas has focused on capturing the narratives of marginalized communities across Latin America, employing her lens to explore themes of memory, identity, and resilience.
2024 WOPHA CONGRESS: HOW PHOTOGRAPHY TEACHES US TO LIVE NOW
The 2024 WOPHA Congress is set to be a pivotal event, fostering cultural partnerships and pushing the boundaries of photography education with a strong focus on inclusivity and innovation. To gain deeper insights into what’s ahead, we caught up with Aldeide Delgado, who shared her perspectives on the Congress’s mission, ambitious goals, key challenges, thematic focus, and the exciting new educational initiative launched by WOPHA.
INDIGENOUS COSMOPOLITANISM. SEBASTIÁN CALFUQUEO INTERVIEW WITH PABLO JOSÉ RAMÍREZ
Visual artist of Mapuche origin Sebastián Calfuqueo interviews Pablo José Ramírez, Adjunct Curator of First Nations and Indigenous Art at the Tate Modern in London, to inquire about his institutional and independent work, specifically, about his project Infrasónica, a digital platform on non-western sound cultures. Ramírez talks here about the complicity between coloniality and translation as a method to observe temporalizations in the discursive formations of the indigenous from a counter-ethnographic perspective, about what he has defined as “Indigenous Cosmopolitanisms”, and about the risky impulse in some sectors of the art world in relation to the indigenous, as it continues to be anchored in superficial questions about representation and identity.
BEAUTIFUL DISTRESS: ART AND MENTAL HEALTH. MARTÍN LA ROCHE IN CONVERSATION WITH CAROL STAKENAS
Carol Stakenas, curator at-large for the Social Practices Art Network (SPAN), talks to Chilean Amsterdam-based artist Martín La Roche (1988) about his three-month residency experience at Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn, New York, as part of the Beautiful Distress Foundation (Amsterdam) program, whose mission is to raise awareness of mental distress under the belief that art is pre-eminently capable of articulating and representing the human condition.
ÉLISABETH LEBOVICI: WHAT AIDS HAS DONE TO HER
Activist, critic and art historian Élisabeth Lebovici’s plume transits the sinuosity of a paradox without contradiction. Silence and voice, life and death, ethics and aesthetics. Throughout her career, the fight against HIV/AIDS and other causes fought by the LGTBQIA+ community imbue a dense corporeality into her particular way of theory making. At a time of new uncertainty and viral panic, looking back at the AIDS epidemic is a sallow reminder of the indifference that medical and political powers can have for the rights of sexual minorities, but also an invitation to live once more the stridency with which artists and activists fought in order to make their voices heard.
Dan Cameron on Curatorial Practice And The Work of Gianfranco Foschino
Although this is not an exhibition focused on water scarcity, nor on the consequences of climate change, it does establish a clear link between the sublime image of the landscape and the terrible state of our current situation. In a room next to SED operates the Centro de Estudios del Agua [Water Studies Center] (CEA), which continually evokes the idea of the individual’s potential agency in the face of climate crisis.
PABLO JOSÉ RAMÍREZ: “LANGUAGE HAS ALWAYS BEEN INSCRIBED IN A SYSTEM OF COLONIAL HIERARCHIES”
At the occasion of the exhibition «The Shores of the World», presented at Display, Prague, in June 2018, curator and theoretician of contemporary art Karina Kottová (1984) discussed with the Guatemalan curator Pablo José Ramírez (1982) about the potentialities and limits of inter-regional and inter-linguistic conversations, both within and beyond this particular exhibition project.
David Batchelor.colour, City And Culture
David Batchelor (1955) is a Scottish artist based in London who has been working on colour for 25 years. Last December, I had the chance to go back to London and, because of my interest in the colour field, I asked him for a meeting in order to have a talk. Kindly, he accepted it and invited me to his studio, located in east London, which is an industrial area also characterized by the presence of many artists’ studios. His amazing neat 150 m2 studio space is divided in three sections: one for office job, another one for creative purposes and the display of his artwork, and the third one for cutting materials and using sprays.
David Lachapelle:»your Intuition is Your Gps»
Combining a unique hyper-realistic aesthetic with profound social messages, David LaChapelle (USA, 1963) has mastered a signature style linked to Pop-Surrealism that has been present throughout his 30 year career. Whether in the commercial…
DAVID LACHAPELLE: «TU INTUICIÓN ES TU GPS»
Combinando una estética hiperrealista única con profundos mensajes sociales, David LaChapelle (EEUU, 1963) ha instaurado un estilo propio ligado al Surrealismo-Pop que ha estado presente a lo largo de sus 30 años de carrera. Ya sea en…