Over 1,000 interviews · Since 2003
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
ARTIST RIMA SALAMOUN AND HER POWERFUL FACES
Rima Salamoun paints sorrow without sentimentality. Her women console each other in dim worlds without names, without faces, without the particular — and precisely because of that, with everything. There is a tradition in Syrian art of using the female figure as a vessel for collective grief. Salamoun is one of its most accomplished inheritors. We could not reach her for an interview. The work reached us instead.
“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.”