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
Explore all our conversations
PICS OR IT DIDN'T HAPPEN
Teens queue patiently at Galerie Perrotin to photograph a 1967 kinetic artwork. Julio Le Parc is 89. His work was made for exactly this moment, fifty years before the moment existed.
VIRGINIA VILLARI PRESENTS MUSIC ON THE GO
They've played in hundreds of cities across the globe for over a decade. Audiofly on the golden age of air travel being over, listening to Coltrane not techno on flights, and Tulum when it was just you, a stray dog and the pelicans.
DEEP IN THE HEART OF THE PERUVIAN AMAZON
She arrived burnt out, skeptical, and carrying back pain she hadn't been able to shake. Eight days later, deep in the Amazon with the Shipibo healers of Ani Nii Shobo, she left feeling the strongest she had in years. Leila Antakly on ayahuasca, Mama Ida, and why the plant always knows.
Kim Mee Hye: Architectural Jewelry for the Modern Woman
Belgian-Korean jewellery designer Kim Mee Hye on wearable architecture, hidden mechanisms, the click of a clasp, Antwerp craftsmanship, and jewels for women who don't consider fine jewellery suited only to a particular occasion.
“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