Polish-born, Miami-based artist Justyna Kisielewicz reclaims beauty as a form of protest. In her new exhibition Living Space (Lebensraum) at Galería La Cometa, she uses bold color, luxury symbols, and historical memory to confront colonial narratives and redefine who gets to tell their own story. We talk about migration, agency, and color as resistance — and how the past shapes what we choose to see in the present. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Nov 06, 2025•37 min
Today we speak to Alejandro García Contreras live from NADA art fair in New York. Born in Tapachula, Chiapas, Mexico, Alejandro captures the essence of legends, blending them with biblical motifs and contemporary pop culture icons like Star Wars. Through his art, he explores the delicate tensions that shape our everyday lives, inviting us to look deeper into the myths that continue to captivate and haunt us. He has mounted solo exhibitions in Ecuador; Guadalajara; iami, FL; New York, NY; among o...
Jul 26, 2024•36 min•Season 2Ep. 4
We journey into the layered world of artist Annya Sand, speaking to her on-location at her latest exhibition in London. Annya's art delves deep into themes of rebirth and healing, exploring the quest for authenticity amidst layers of colorful abstraction. Her work, showcased from The Houses of Parliament in London to the UN headquarters in New York, reflects a profound exploration of identity and self-discovery. Most recently, she held an exhibition celebrating the female identity at the Savoy i...
Jul 03, 2024•34 min•Season 2Ep. 2
Launching the second season of the podcast, we visit Spanish sculptor Juan Garaizabal in his studio on the outskirts of Madrid—a grungy, cool garage brimming with projects and metal scraps. In this special episode, we delve into Juan’s ambitious and long-standing project, Urban Memories, a series of powerful artistic installations of unconventional structures that recreate the spirit of heroic stories, evoking a collective vision of memory, history, and romantic nostalgia. Juan, welding each pie...
Jun 17, 2024•37 min•Season 2Ep. 1
Today we interview Tahmineh Monzavi during her solo exhibition at Galerie Eric Dupont in Paris. Tucked away in a cobbled alley, this substantial exhibition revealed taboos and stereotypes in Iran and Afghanistan through the images of women and marginalized people. Based in Tehran, Tahmineh’s work has been exhibited in Rome, Vienna, Boston, Seoul, Amsterdam, the Modern Art Museum of Paris, and LACMA in LA. She is a highly recognized international artist who takes an unflinching look at life. Host...
Oct 15, 2023•28 min•Season 1Ep. 11
When do humans come of age? In Latin America, there’s a special celebration called the Quinceañera that marks the transition from girlhood to womanhood. Taking place during a girl’s 15th birthday, this traditional party is characterized by bold colours, glitter, over the top dresses, and choreographed dances. Today, we have the pleasure of speaking to award winning fashion designer and artist Anabella Bergero in her latest exhibition ‘Heart of the Community’ currently on show at Faena Art Projec...
Oct 11, 2023•33 min•Season 1Ep. 10
Have you ever walked the city at night? Multidisciplinary artist Carlos Alba has spent years photographing this beautiful landscape. But his electrifying images also comment on the dangerous effects of light pollution on humans, animals and plants alike. For this interview, we catch him at his exhibition in Centro Centro Madrid, which was part of Photo España last year. Carlos is a multidisciplinary artist who has been producing work over the world for the last 15 years. He has received prizes i...
Aug 16, 2023•33 min•Season 1Ep. 9
Artist and architect Ana González Rojas welcomes us into her studio in Bogota where we discover work inspired by El Dorado, a legendary city made of gold, which she believes to be Colombia's natural heritage. Using very delicate and refined techniques, such as embroidery, crochet and porcelain, her sculptural works and textile interventions are marked by a distinct concern for understanding mining, deforestation and forced displacement. Ana graduated as an architect from the University of los An...
Aug 02, 2023•32 min•Season 1Ep. 8
Have you even seen a painting where the oil was applied on the back of the canvas? Marlon Portales' latest exhibition 'Poems of Nature' in Miami's Pan American Art Projects Gallery featured works that did just this, showing both what’s within and what we put out to the world. Soft and sensual, these works reflect on the isolation and memory that comes with immigration. Marlon is a multidisciplinary artist based in Miami, Florida, who graduated with honours from the prestigious Instituto Superior...
Jul 18, 2023•29 min•Season 1Ep. 7
Today we meet Giana De Dier, a Panamanian artist whose mixed media collages and digital compositions examine the experiences of Afro-Caribbean migrants in the segregated Canal Zone at the beginning of the 20th century. A quickly emerging artist, Giana’s work has been shown in Italy, Washington, New York, London and Panama. She is the first artist to do an artist residency at the Panama Canal Museum, completing an intervention in the Museum’s historical archives to reassess a history that can be ...
Jul 11, 2023•31 min•Season 1Ep. 6
In celebration of Pride Month, today we have the pleasure of speaking directly to Daniel Vais, Founder and Creative Director of Culture Device, Drag Syndrome, the first drag collective made up exclusively of people with Downs Syndrome, and the Radical Beauty Project, an avant-garde art and high fashion project bringing globally renowned photographers together with models with Down’s Syndrome. In 2019, Daniel Directed a powerful reinterpretation of Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring with a group of ...
Jun 30, 2023•35 min•Season 1Ep. 5
Step into photographer Janelle Lynch's studio in New York City’s West Village. This episode was produced in partnership with Flowers Gallery, where Janelle's latest body of work 'Endless Forms Most Beautiful', comprised of diaphanous cyanotypes, is on show until 7 July. Characterised by a unique gentleness and a mystical relationship with nature, Janelle's works have been shown worldwide and are in many private and public collections around the world, including the MET and ICP in New York and th...
Jun 12, 2023•33 min•Season 1Ep. 4
During this special episode in partnership with Frieze 91 recorded in May to a live audience during Frieze NYC, we hear from contemporary artist Daniel Dugan. American-Cuban Dugan has had a life-long practice of drawing this labyrinth-like line that never intersects. He has painted the line in all sorts of canvas: wood, fine fabrics, ceramics, bald heads, lawns, sand, wallets. His work is meditative and hypnotic, challenging us to see life not as a maze, but as a labyrinth. This interview took p...
Jun 05, 2023•34 min•Season 1Ep. 3
One of the greatest contemporary photographers and directors of our generation, Nadav Kander receives us in his London studio. Nadav has received an Honorary Fellowship from the Royal Photographic Society and won the Prix Pictet award for his striking images of China’s Yangtze River. In 2009, he had 52 full colour portraits published in one issue of The New York Times Magazine surrounding US President Barack Obama. There is a certain melancholic beauty, an uncanniness, in Nadav's work that I’ve ...
May 30, 2023•26 min•Season 1Ep. 2
For our very first episode, we feature a remarkable Mexican painter and sculptor whose work has been shown across the globe: Rosario Guerrero. Her personified chair sculptures and vibrant abstract paintings have been exhibited from Mexico to Panama, New York to Tokyo. Now, 8 decades into a celebrated career, I chose to feature her as our first artist because she was the person who solidified and encouraged my love of art. You see, in its own magical and sublime way, I am named Rosario after my g...
May 20, 2023•39 min•Season 1Ep. 1
