A Body Apart with artist Amie Pascal

Surrealist artist Amie Pascal brings a queer lens to portraying and challenging representations of the body, blurring lines between reality and imagination while juxtaposing abject body horror with beauty. Her work expresses a universal rawness from a queer woman’s disabled embodiment in her new series ‘A Body Apart.’

Some of the things we discussed

• 00:10:11 - How the pandemic and long COVID changed her art
• 00:18:21 - The use of vintage anatomical illustrations as reference material and the reclamation of marginalized bodies
• 00:20:56 - Inspiration from filmmakers and women surrealists
• 00:27:03 - The "real world" as a liminal and surreal space
• 00:33:07 - Music pairings for each painting

Episode transcript

Paintings we discussed specifically

Not Much Left

Right in the Back

Dead Ringer I & Dead Ringer II (the other two paintings that feature L'Ange Anatomique)

On the Other Side

We Dare to Breathe (mentioned as "the heart and lungs")

Moments of Clarity Are So Rare (mentioned as "the head with all of the veins")

Infusion & Refusal (mentioned as "the grayscale images on the bright orange backgrounds")

Eviscerated

People and things we mentioned

A Body Apart playlist

Cambium Gallery

Amie's Instagram

Leonora Carrington (Britain & Mexico, account run by her grandson)

Remedios Varo (Mexico)

Léonor Fini (Argentina)

Contemporary filmmakers and artists

Céline Sciamma

Michelle Garza Cervera

Nadia Waheed

Naudline Cluvie Pierre

Daisy Parris

María Fragoso

Sapphic Culture Club on Instagram