Total Immersion: Frieda Toranzo Jaeger
by Chris Sharp
Frieda Toranzo Jaeger is a Mexican painter based in Hamburg, where she recently finished her studies. Her work is strange, aggressive, unaccountably sexy, and anything but conforming to the stereotypes associated with Mexico. It did not take the author long to realize that he really liked it, and to start what turned into a fruitful conversation about the artist’s practice, the craft and stakes of painting in general, and Mexico City, among other things.
The Testimonial Subject: Rana Hamadeh
by Carolina Rito
The Ten Murders of Josephine (2017) is an operatic work structured through several evolving iterations that overwrite and trouble one another, proposing a particular dramaturgy of labor and research processes that commence with the present exhibition at Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art in Rotterdam. In this conversation, the artist unfolds the constitutive conditions of testimony vis-à-vis the notion of “testimonial subjecthood.”
Variation and Repetition: Aria Dean
by Hanna Girma
Often employing seemingly mundane, mass-produced—yet culturally weighted—objects and proxy-sourced images, the work of Aria Dean forces the viewer to consider the encumbrance of the material but also the fraught realm in which the corporeal exists. Dean’s projects as an artist, writer, and curator are equally part of her larger, multifaceted practice. Here she discusses her status as an art-world Anansi character of sorts, how her past writing and work deviate from her upcoming projects, and the state of black critique.
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