SLARTIFY SLART

Slartify: Real talk with real people about Art, Life, Creativity and the Mind.

Tara Vatanpour is a Persian, Azari, American and French artist who has a strong educational background in Fine Arts. She has exhibited internationally in Venice, London, and Paris. Her work uses mainly installation art and performance art, although multidisciplinary. She created the fashion brand Tara Vatanpour recently completing her artistic research and expression by creating haute couture.

Sophie El-Homsi is an Art Agent and Brand Representative for Tara Vatanpour Arts & Luxury Fashion Freelance. She is in charge of creating a portfolio of potential clients, developing new leads for solo shows and events, as well as funding and networking, plus selling art and the haute-couture pieces.

We have a lovely conversation about mental health, travel, inspiration and crypto art and much more. 

Slartify: Real talk with real people about Art, Life, Creativity and the Mind. My first guest is Polish-born artist, now brooklynite, Agata Oleksiak AKA Olek. They have done some fantastic work using crochet and more recently, Virtual Reality. I was in awe looking through Olek’s instagram at the amount of work they’ve produced over the past decade. The artworks that stood out the most for me was the large-scale crochet pieces, covering the Wall Street Bull, entire houses and giant banners celebrating influential figures in history. I deliberately didn’t want to ask Olek about work specifics as most of those details are online already, I wanted to go deeper as I was interested in some of the writings that accompanied Olek’s Instragram posts, such as “Find a dimension that is deeper than your thoughts” and wanted to explore these instead.