FIAC STORIES
FIAC OVR | Conversation Room | Museo Tamayo
Join Museo Tamayo’s Director, Magalí Arriola, for a conversation with artists Paloma Contreras Lomas, Miguel Calderón, Romeo Gómez López , included in OTRXS MUNDXS, and Humberto Moro, curator of the exhibition currently installed at Museo Tamayo. Departing from this survey exhibition presented in the middle of a global pandemic, the conversation...
FIAC OVR | Through the Eyes of | Jean de Loisy
Visit FIAC, bump into some friends, discover unknown artists, surprise yourself with the array of sublime works to covet, explore galleries from countries rarely visited, hone the finesse of the gaze with one exhibitor or another, approve of their loyalty to some...
FIAC OVR | Conversation Room | Museo Tamayo
Join Museo Tamayo’s Director, Magalí Arriola, for a conversation with artists Paloma Contreras Lomas, Miguel Calderón, Romeo Gómez López , included in OTRXS MUNDXS, and Humberto Moro, curator of the exhibition currently installed at Museo Tamayo. Departing from this survey exhibition presented in the middle of a global pandemic, the conversation will revolve around individual and collective creation and the everchanging tensions between the local and the global, with special emphasis of the...
FIAC OVR | Through the Eyes of | Jean de Loisy
Visit FIAC, bump into some friends, discover unknown artists, surprise yourself with the array of sublime works to covet, explore galleries from countries rarely visited, hone the finesse of the gaze with one exhibitor or another, approve of their loyalty to some artists that we see less often and their intensity with respect to some newcomers who have earned their trust. Admire the monumental installations, reproach yourself for not having noticed sooner a promise clearly kept and now...
FIAC PORTRAIT | Trevor Yeung
Trevor Yeung is Hong Kong based artist whose practice, according to art writer and curator Cosmin Costinas, uses natural bodies and systems as a pretext for describing human processes and relations. We talked his recent work, favourite medium, the notion of control and its imprtant in the artist's work. Trevor Yeung is represented by Galerie Allen. How would you describe your work and artistic practice in a couple sentences? I would like to answer this question in a personal way. My works...
FIAC PORTRAIT | Erin Jane Nelson
Erin Jane Nelson is Atlanta based artist and writer, she is also the Publisher and Director of Burnaway, a non-profit magazine of contemporary art in the American South. We talked about her recent work, favourite mediums, 3 projects that she finds the most formative, as well as her routine and rituals as an artist.Erin Jane Nelson is represented by DOCUMENT and Chapter NY.What project have you been recently working on? Currently, I am working on a series of new, very large ceramic wall...
FIAC OVR | Through the Eyes of | Emma Lavigne
This online meander through FIAC inspired the beginnings of two imaginary exhibitions. The first, Surréalité, a dreamlike interlude that could be deployed within a psychedelic fictional manor, such as Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh, and Hesam Rahmania’s castle of obsessions, haunted by Lois Weinberger’s Green Man, Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s ghosts, Dorothy Iannone’s ecstatic lover, Peter Saoul’s funky painter, or Jakob Lena Knebl’s polymorphic bodies. A matrix for cultivating new forms...
FIAC PORTRAIT | Hanne Lippard
Hanne Lippard is a visual artist and writer based in Berlin, whose artistic practise focuses on human communication and language in its many forms. Hanne uses her own voice as a medium to develop performances, sound installations and sculpture. We talked about her recent work, favourite medium and routine. The artist is represented by LambdaLambdaLambda.What project have you been recently working on? This year my main focus lies on two big exhibitions, a series of exhibitions called “Contact,...
FIAC TIPS | Intérieurs 2020: Naoki Sutter-Shudo, “Les Émigrés”
Naoki Sutter-Shudo Les Émigrés, 2020 Colour video, sound 2mn 35sec Naoki Sutter-Shudo recites a short speech originally made by Danton at the National Convention in October 1792, where the session considered a new decree: banning emigrants from the territory of the Republic in perpetuity. Sutter-Shudo, living mainly in Los Angeles since 2015, adorns the speech with a cigarette, an iPhone, jewellery and a T-shirt bearing the effigy of the French Revolution, somewhat cynical anachronisms that...
FIAC OVR | Through the Eyes of | X Zhu-Nowell
If we consider an artwork a thing that inherently contains various sets of relationships, constellations of ideas, ways of making, and genealogies, then my work here is to suggest a few connecting threads that weave through these already overlapping and interconnected worlds. My selection of works for FIAC doesn’t follow an overarching theme, logic, or historical narrative, but there are a few running themes that connect different artist practices and strands of thinking with each other. One...
FIAC FOCUS | Society
Artists presented in this focus deal with different issues symptomatic of today's society. Coming from different countries and backgrounds, some of them choose to focus on global matters, while others concentrate on what is going on in their homelands.Mona HatoumProjection (velvet), 2013White Cube Projection (velvet) (2013) relates to a body of work that Hatoum has produced – including various sculptures and works on paper – which depict a world map, using the less familiar Gall-Peters...
FIAC OVR | Through the Eyes of | Saim Demircan
Here are ten highlights from a wider selection of artworks on show in FIAC’s Online Viewing Rooms, which I think speak to notions of the self, biographies or personal histories both past and present or sites ancient and imagined. The radiantly colored bodies that fill Cecilia Granara’s canvases often entwine with others or nature.Parisian artist-run gallery Exo Exo are showing her painting Feeling is Seeing Otherwise (2020). A meditative painting of sorts – floating arms caress two opposing...