Sapphic Culture Club

A Body Apart with artist Amie Pascal


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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


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