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Curator and art historian Nathalie Herschdorfer shares with us her wisdom and thoughts on the body and body-image, the influence of photography on the self-conception of the body, including its importance in the emergence of social media.
Nathalie Herschdorfer talks about her journey of becoming an art historian, the experiences that have raised her awareness of the gender disparity in the art world, what this means for the industry, and for her research on the body and body-image. She speaks about several kinds of deconstruction and reflects on how the evolving photography practices have impacted these processes. Finally, she gives insightful thoughts on her book “Body” and the ‘feminist prism’, sculpting the landscape of art photography nowadays and how it has come to change through the emergence of social media. Nathalie closes the conversation with final reflections on the importance of women’s experience – as women – as they relate to their art.
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In this episode, Laia Abril discusses the origins of her career, her methodology, the themes she explores in her work, often related to women, such as rape and abortion. She also shares her insights from creating art out of polarizing issues, and being a woman in the art world.
Laia Abril traces back to what led her to study journalism, then end up doing art photography through a need to communicate about certain stories. She discusses the myriad ways in which to express a story, and the roadblocks she’s faced during her career in attempting to shed light on certain difficult stories and realities. Laia tells us how her work has naturally veered towards a central theme: being a woman. Moreover, she explores with us what this means in the art world, discusses the roles of our institutions and the paradoxical fact that these very creative institutions are sometimes averse to work that depicts themes that still create unease: abortion, rape. She shares with us the intricacies of her art and the challenges of working with subjects on such delicate issues.
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Violaine Lochu tells us about her fascination with voice, which led to her art, and how this materializes in her performances and installations. She also talks about her thoughts on being a woman in her field, her work process, and all the forms her art can take.
Violaine Lochu shares her fascination on voice and how she uses it for her art, a transdisciplinary practice which takes its roots in encounters with humans and non-humans and voice recordings. She talks about her process, her discipline and emotional connection to her art, her views on being a woman artist, and speaks about her upcoming exhibition at the Galerie Analix Forever: MblaHah.
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This podcast is supported by Pro Helvetia the swiss arts council, The city of Lancy, and the Republic and Canton of Geneva, Switzerland
Olivia Fahmy tells us about her background as an art historian in relation to her curatorial work, the co-founding and running of the independent art space Tunnel Tunnel, and the question of heritage, particularly attached to her recent curation of African contemporary art.
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Olivia Fahmy begins by tracing back to her roots: how she developed an interest in art history which propelled her to current career, explaining that she initially didn’t have encouraged exposure to the art world. She goes on elaborating on the question of heritage and legitimacy, having Egyptian parents. She co-founded an independent art space, Tunnel Tunnel, and talks about the experience of this collective and what they strive to achieve through their projects, with a highlight on diversity and multiplicity. She speaks about the relation between curatorial work and societal changes, being a woman in her field of work, the reshaping of education, discrepancies in matters of equality and identity, the panel discussions on photography she has created, and women photographers. She mentions artists such as Sim chin Yin, Leobang Thlako and Sabine Weiss. Finally, Olivia ends off with a word of advice for artists to fight against inequality and to be empowered.
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This podcast is supported by Pro Helvetia the swiss arts council, The city of Lancy, and the Republic and Canton of Geneva, Switzerland
Nadine Wietlishbach talks about her career as a curator and her philosophy in relation to exhibitions and art, and insights on being a woman in her environment.
Nadine Wietlishbach has an unusual background for her career as a curator and museum director: she has no formal education or background in arts history. But her immense curiosity and interest for visual arts in all its mediums has propelled her to her current standing. In this episode we discuss the catalyst of her interest in visual arts, where she draws inspiration from, her approach and vision on exhibition creation and the space that surrounds it, the reality of contemporary photography being a medium of exclusion, and her punk attitude coasting through her career.
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Founder of the Women Photographers International Archive (WOPHA), Aldeide Delgado comes in to talk about her organization, the ongoing research project that unveiled the work of past generations of women artists/photographers in Cuba, leading to a career defined by her contributions to photography, empowering women and gender equality through establishing meaningful connections and threads across multiple organizations, eventually redefining art history.
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Aldeide Delgado has been on a mission to uncover lost art and artists, particularly women photographers, particularly in Cuba, where she started out. She founded the Women Photographers International Archive (WOPHA). While studying art history she noticed a gap in the curriculum that had failed to notice women in the history of Cuban Photography before the 90s. This has led to her ongoing research that aims to uncover some of this lost art and forgotten women photographers. This in turn led to the creation of WOPHA – Women Photographers International Archive, a rising non profit, and the first edition of a free international congress that gathers artists and numerous organizations with similar interests. She discusses the challenges of the research, the “Fast Forward Manifesto”, and the highlights of the Congress.
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Celebrated and award-winning contemporary photographer Jessica Backhaus is here to talk about her artistic journey from being a child brought up around Art, to her photography studies, mentorship with Gisèle Freund, first assignments, and her current work as one of the most highly regarded contemporary photographers in Germany. She shares valuable insights and meditations on her career and being a woman in her field of work.
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Jessica Backhaus has had a long career. So in this packed double-episode, we untangle the several aspects of Jessica’s life, roots, career, and passion.
In Part 1, she talks about her childhood and novice experiences as a photographer: from being a student in Paris, to getting under the mentorship of iconic Gisèle Freund, her first professional assignments, moving to New York, and being a woman in a field of work that held strong stigma against women at the time Jessica started working.
In Part 2, coming soon after, we will delve deeper into Jessica’s work, how she’s evolved along with her style, and the serendipitous accidents that led to her most recent installation.
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This podcast is supported by Pro Helvetia the Swiss arts council, the Republic and Canton of Geneva and the City of Lany in Switzerland.
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Celebrated and award-winning contemporary photographer Jessica Backhaus is on the show as the first guest of the season to talk about her artistic journey from being a child brought up around Art, to her photography studies, mentorship with Gisele Freund, first assignments, and her current work as one of the most highly regarded contemporary photographers in Germany. She shares valuable insights and meditations on her career and being a woman in her field of work.
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Jessica Backhaus has had a long career. So in this packed double-episode, we untangle the several aspects of Jessica’s life, roots, career, and passion.
In Part 1, she talks about her childhood and novice experiences as a photographer: from being a student in Paris, to getting under the mentorship of iconic Gisèle Freund, her first professional assignments, moving to New York, and being a woman in a field of work that held strong stigma against women at the time Jessica started working.
In Part 2, we will delve deeper into Jessica’s work, how she’s evolved along with her style, and the serendipitous accidents that led to her most recent installation.
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This podcast is supported by Pro Helvetia the Swiss arts council, the Republic and Canton of Geneva and the City of Lany in Switzerland.
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This episode is part of a series of four live round tables that took place in the art fair artgenève in early March 2022. They took place in French and will be available soon in English as a dubbed version.
La Fluidité du Genre, la Fluidité de l’Art/The Fluidity of Gender, the Fluidity of Art
Dimanche 6 mars à 15 heures, stand A10 / Sunday March 6th 3 p.m. stand A10
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« Et peut-être les sexes sont-ils plus parents qu’on ne croit, et le grand renouvellement du monde consistera peut-être en ce que l’homme et la jeune fille, libérés de tout sentiment erroné et de toute répugnance, ne se chercheront plus comme des contraires, mais comme frère et sœur, et comme voisins, et se réuniront en tant qu’êtres humains pour porter ensemble, avec simplicité, sérieux et patience, ce que le sexe a de grave, et qui leur est imposé. »
Texte de Barbara Polla
This episode is part of a series of four live round tables that took place in the art fair artgenève in early March 2022. They took place in French and will be available soon in English as a dubbed version.
Sexisme, Discrimination Positive et Qualité Artistique/Sexism, Positive Discrimination, and Artistic Quality
Samedi 5 mars à 18 heures, stand A10 / Saturday, March 5th, 3 p.m. stand A10
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Lancée depuis de nombreuses années aux Etats-Unis par rapport aux discriminations raciales, l’idée de la discrimination positive est de favoriser les femmes dans un certain nombre de domaines afin de rétablir une forme d’équité qui, de fait, n’est pas la règle. Cette action désormais présente sous différentes formes en Europe suscite cependant encore de nombreux débats. On le sait, la majorité des artistes sortant des écoles d’art sont des femmes et pourtant il nous faut encore déplorer leur plus faible représentation tant dans les musées que sur le marché de l’art, sans compter la conception masculinisée que l’on se fait de l’Histoire de l’art de ces cinquante dernières années. Depuis longtemps deux attitudes semblent s’offrir aux artistes femmes qui sont conscientes de cet état de fait, parfois fluctuant à l’intérieur même de leurs pratiques. D’un côté elles détournent l’assignation qui leur est faite de la cuisine, la maison, les travaux « d’aiguille », brandissant ces pratiques genrées pour en faire un étendard de liberté et de créativité assumée. De l’autre côté du féminisme, certaines préfèrent construire leur œuvre sans référence particulière à cette question, estimant que c’est la reconnaissance de la qualité de leur travail qui sera la plus efficace pour le changement. Avec des groupes plus activistes tels les fameuses « Guerrilla Girls », on se situe bien entendu dans la revendication nette d’une place plus importante que les femmes se devraient d’imposer à un système de présentation des œuvres dominé par les hommes. Doit-on, pour ces artistes femmes, prendre des mesures comparables à celles qui changent la donne depuis une bonne décennie en politique ou en matière de droits sociaux ? Ou peut-on au contraire redouter un effet pervers dû à un doute sur la qualité artistique qui devrait être seule prise en compte ?
Texte de Frédéric Elkaïm
The podcast currently has 43 episodes available.