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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Model. Scholar. Performance Artist Meet Samira Mahboub
Leila Antakly interviews Wilhelmina international model and scholar Samira Mahboub on culture change and cross-cultural communications.
Inside Nafsika Skourti’s Fashion Vision
A handwritten letter from a loved one. Political graffiti scrawled on a prison wall. A page ripped from an old newspaper. Inscriptions from a 1937 coin. These are the fragments of Palestinian life that Nafsika Skourti has embedded into fabric. Not as metaphor. As documentation. Volume II: Traces of Being is the second chapter in her series حُبِّي فِلَسطِين, My Love, Palestine, and it is among the most important things happening in fashion right now.
Building the Platform: Sunny Rahbar and The Third Line's Defense of Middle Eastern Art
In the early 2000s, Dubai's contemporary art scene was not a given. It was a possibility waiting for a catalyst. Sunny Rahbar became that catalyst. She built audience before she built sales. She hosted film screenings and talks and club nights before she went to Frieze. She defended artists who had no gallery representation and watched them grow into artists shown in every significant Western institution. An Arabic name on a Western gallery's roster is no longer unusual. She is one of the reasons why.
“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