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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Diary of a City — Nina Mouritzen Photography
Copenhagen-born, New York–formed. Apprenticed under Mary Ellen Mark, documented a generation — Nina Mouritzen on the diary-like intimacy of portraiture, buskers in New Orleans, and why work and hanging out are always the same thing.
A Conversation with Shirin Neshat
Every project, image, and story is about framing a series of questions that are deeply important to me as a human being.- Shirin Neshat
From Vanity Fair to International Collections: A Conversation with Artist Alexandra Diez de Rivera
Alexandra Diez de Rivera places antique children's dresses directly onto photo-sensitive paper and exposes them to light. The skin cells and body oils of whoever wore those clothes, perhaps a child who is no longer small, perhaps no longer alive, seep into the surface and become part of the image permanently. That is not a metaphor for memory. It is memory, made literal through photographic chemistry. There is no digital equivalent. There cannot be.
“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.”