This episode features Arash Hanaei, visual artist from Tehran. Arash Hanaei lives and works between Paris and Tehran. After studying photography at Azad University of Tehran he developed his practice combining different mediums and techniques. Talking about his workplace Arash Hanaei says “A suburb is an empty space for new ideas”.

Hannah Archambault was born in 1996 in the Paris suburbs to a Polish mother and a French father. She studied photography at the Gobelins before joining the Royal College of Art in London where she is exploring sound art. Talking about her workplace Hannah Archambault says “Sound is living in the space”.

Square Meters features Nicola Lo Calzo, a photographer, queer artist and Ph.D. researcher from Italy. Nicola lives and works in Paris where he teaches photography at École nationale supérieure d’arts Paris-Cergy (ENSAPC). Trained as a heritage curator at the Polytechnic University of Turin, he shifted to photography in 2008. His photographic practice and research are attentive to questions surrounding heritage, coloniality, and identity.

Nelson Pernisco’s work has to be explored the way we would approach the third-places he makes his own; seen as a space of free indiscipline where critical thinking breads new utopias. From urban squats to industrial wastelands, the visual artist took it upon himself to discover the various means of occupying territories, of constructing housings, and the way they act as a catalyst for political orders. His aesthetic is dry and in some way, brutalist. He relies on recycling poor and recovered materials, presented as touchstones of a world that may already be in ruins, and is at best under never-ending construction.

LaTurbo Avedon is an avatar and artist, working solely from the Internet. Their work emphasizes the practice of nonphysical identity and authorship. Over the past ten years they have explored the growing relationship between users and virtual environments. They create this body of work using the simulation tools of the current moment.

Italian director and performer from Treviso (Italy), Silvia Costa proposes a visual and poetic theatre nourished by a deep reflection on images. Alternating roles as writer, director, interpreter, and set designer, this protean artist crosses different aesthetic fields in a personal exploration of Theatre. Her creations are regularly presented in major Italian and international festivals.

Square Meters starts the second season welcoming the listeners into the studio of Thomas Sauvin, author of the project Beijing Silvermine. Since 2009, the French collector and artist Thomas Sauvin has salvaged discarded negatives from a recycling plant on the edge of Beijing, negatives that were destined to destruction. His Beijing Silvermine archive, one of the largest archival projects in China, now encompasses over 850000 anonymous photographs spanning the period from 1985 to 2005, thus allowing the reconstruction of a large part of the history of popular analogue photography in the country.

Square Meters is a sneak peek art culture podcast hosted by Alessandra Chiericato and produced by The Room Projects. In this second season, Alessandra introduces the listeners into the studio of nowadays artists and authors. From the description of their actual workplace to the designation of a potential one, the podcast offers a unique perspective from some of the most interesting people in the visual art scene, music, theatre, and art critic.

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Square Meters ends its first season with a focus on The Room Projects.

Talking about The Encyclopaedic Palace curated by Massimiliano Gioni, the role played by images in our research and curatorial practice, to finish with some thoughts around this podcast, Alessandra Chiericato, our curator and director, lets you peek in our Room.

This episode has been recorded in 2020 at The Room Projects’ office located at VOLTAIRE, a shared workplace in the 11th neighborhood of Paris, France.

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Square Meters is an original podcast produced by The Room Projects and hosted by independent curator Alessandra Chiericato.

Find out more:
@theroomprojects
@alessandrachiericato

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Square Meters takes you inside the creative studio of Spanish visual artist María Tinaut.

Her artistic journey began as an abstract painter until she was admitted to the Fine Art faculty of Virginia Commonwealth University. There, she started experimenting with mediums, questioning herself about photography and reproduction. Starting with the description of her personal photocopy archive that she travels with since the American days, talking about the color blue has a source of constant inspiration, to finish with some thoughts around the role of art and culture in pandemic times, María lets us peek into her creative mind.

This episode was recorded in 2020 at her atelier located in Studio Buena Vista, in a small village nearby Valencia, Spain.

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Square Meters is an original podcast produced by The Room Projects and hosted by independent curator Alessandra Chiericato.

Find out more:
@theroomprojects
@alessandrachiericato