Curious about
their work,
not the moment.
Leila Antakly has spent over twenty years in conversation with artists, musicians, designers, filmmakers, and thinkers all over the world who are making work that matters. These are the conversations.
Interviews from the Archive
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WRITER ANDREW BERARDINI
He is only ever and truly a writer. Other things slip in — curator, editor, teacher — but they all filter through the magic of words. Andrew Berardini has penned essays for sci-fi pagan witches and queer geniuses, co-curated Estonia's Venice Pavilion, and tracked 110 shades of colour through memory and art history. We asked him about icons. He said we should smash them all. We asked about wellbeing. He said: more love, less fear. Joy.
FASHION PHOTOGRAPHER CHARLOTTE FAVRE
Gobelins-trained photographer Charlotte Favré on Brittany light, memory as creative process, interning with Bettina Rheims, and her series Emotional Movement.
SARA MEINZ
Her creative process began with shooting lots of bad pictures — then letting them rest, going back months later, hoping one of them had quietly become something. Sara Meinz, born in Vigo in 1996, has since been shortlisted for the Palm Photo Prize, selected for Futures Photography, and published twice by Pomegranate Press. Back in her hometown, she is working on something new: narratives, not single frames. The pandemic changed what she thinks photography is for.
“Visibility has never been our measure of significance. We seek out artists and inspiring individuals whose work sparks curiosity, challenges assumptions, and leaves a lasting impression.”
Every project, image, and story is about framing a series of questions that are deeply important to me as a human being.- Shirin Neshat