FIAC STORIES
FIAC PORTRAIT | Anna Hulacová
Anna Hulačová is a Czech artist based outside of Prague. We talked about her recent projects at Moly Sabata residency, mythology and folklore, sculpture as her main medium and discussed the challenges of reconciling family life and motherhood with artistic practice. Anna Hulačová is represented by hunt kastner. Read our interview with Camille...
FIAC PORTRAIT | ISABELLE CORNARO
We met with Isabelle Cornaro at her studio in Paris to talk about her work and current projects, the importance of narrative, fascination with objects and various medium the artist works with. Isabelle Cornaro is represented by the galleries Balice Hertling in Paris,...
FIAC PORTRAIT | Anna Hulacová
Anna Hulačová is a Czech artist based outside of Prague. We talked about her recent projects at Moly Sabata residency, mythology and folklore, sculpture as her main medium and discussed the challenges of reconciling family life and motherhood with artistic practice. Anna Hulačová is represented by hunt kastner. Read our interview with Camille Hunt and Katherine Kastner on FIAC Stories. How would you describe your work and artistic practice in a couple sentences? I would compare my style of...
FIAC PORTRAIT | ISABELLE CORNARO
We met with Isabelle Cornaro at her studio in Paris to talk about her work and current projects, the importance of narrative, fascination with objects and various medium the artist works with. Isabelle Cornaro is represented by the galleries Balice Hertling in Paris, Francesca Pia in Zürich, Hannah Hoffmann in Los Angeles and Foksal Gallery Foundation in Warsaw.Vidéo : InstanT Productions Isabelle Cornaro lives and works in Paris and Geneva. In 2021, her work will be the subject of solo...
FIAC PORTRAIT | PETER UKA
Peter Uka is Cologne based artist who works with different types of media and draws his inspiration from his own past and his present. We talked about his studies, the evolution of his work and the importance of memory, history and intimacy. Peter Uka is represented by Mariane Ibrahim. Read our interview with the gallerist on FIAC Stories. Vidéo : InstanT Productions Image : © Kai Schmidt . Courtesy of Mariane Ibrahim Biographie de l'artiste Peter Uka’s (b.1975, Nigeria; based in Cologne,...
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...