41 min
A Body Apart with artist Amie Pascal Sapphic Culture Club
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- Society & Culture
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
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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
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Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sapphiccultureclub/message
41 min