Sublime Art

Today we interview Tahmineh Monzavi during her solo exhibition at Galerie Eric Dupont in Paris. Tucked away in a cobbled alley, this substantial exhibition revealed taboos and stereotypes in Iran and Afghanistan through the images of women and marginalized people. Based in Tehran, Tahmineh’s work has been exhibited in Rome, Vienna, Boston, Seoul, Amsterdam, the Modern Art Museum of Paris, and LACMA in LA. She is a highly recognized international artist who takes an unflinching look at life. 

When do humans come of age? In Latin America, there’s a special celebration called the Quinceañera that marks the transition from girlhood to womanhood. Taking place during a girl’s 15th birthday, this traditional party is characterized by bold colours, glitter, over the top dresses, and choreographed dances. Today, we have the pleasure of speaking to award winning fashion designer and artist Anabella Bergero in her latest exhibition ‘Heart of the Community’ currently on show at Faena Art Project Room in Miami, where this episode was recorded to a live audience. Using religious pop iconography and the vibrant colors of urban Latin American life, Anabella explores the sociopolitical intricacies of Quinceañeras. Anabella is a professor at Instituto Marangoni in Miami. She has been featured in L'Officiel, Vogue, i-D Magazine, Harper's Bazaar, Clarin Newspaper, and exhibited internationally, including Buenos Aires, Mexico City, New York and Miami. Between 2015 and 2018 she was selected as emerging designer of the year by Harper's Bazaar Argentina.

Have you ever walked the city at night? Multidisciplinary artist Carlos Alba has spent years photographing this beautiful landscape. But his electrifying images also comment on the dangerous effects of light pollution on humans, animals and plants alike. For this interview, we catch him at his exhibition in Centro Centro Madrid, which was part of Photo España last year.Carlos is a multidisciplinary artist who has been producing work over the world for the last 15 years. He has received prizes in the Tokyo International Photography Competition, Landskrona Foto Festival in Sweden, Flash Forward UK (Canada, 2016) and Zona C Visual Artist Awards (Spain, 2015). He was a finalist for the Best Photobook of the Year Award by PHotoEspaña (Spain, 2020), the GetxoPhoto Festival (Spain, 2019), the BMW Art & Culture, among others. His work has been exhibited at various galleries and museums worldwide, including the Hayward Gallery (London, 2019), the Tokyo International Photography Competition (TIPC) (Japan, 2018), Singapore International Photography Festival (Singapore, 2018), La Fábrica Gallery (Madrid, Spain, 2016), and PHotoEspaña (Madrid, Spain, 2016),

Artist and architect Ana González Rojas welcomes us into her studio in Bogota where we discover work inspired by El Dorado, a legendary city made of gold, which she believes to be Colombia's natural heritage. Using very delicate and refined techniques, such as embroidery, crochet and porcelain, her sculptural works and textile interventions are marked by a distinct concern for understanding mining, deforestation and forced displacement.Ana graduated as an architect from the University of los Andes, specialized in Art and Gender at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland and did her Masters in Photography-Printing-Editing at ESNBA and ESCP in Paris, France. This episode was developed in collaboration with Galeria La Cometa.View the artwork we discuss on our Instagram @SublimeArtProject: https://www.instagram.com/reel/Csd4x1SAOQm/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

Have you even seen a painting where the oil was applied on the back of the canvas? Marlon Portales' latest exhibition 'Poems of Nature' in Miami's Pan American Art Projects Gallery featured works that did just this, showing both what’s within and what we put out to the world. Soft and sensual, these works reflect on the isolation and memory that comes with immigration. Marlon is a multidisciplinary artist based in Miami, Florida, who graduated with honours from the prestigious Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA) in Havana in 2018. His unique and captivating works have been featured in numerous group and solo exhibitions across the globe, including Spain, Germany, Italy, Panama, the United States, and Cuba. This episode was produced in collaboration with Pan American Art Projects.View the artwork we discuss on our Instagram @SublimeArtProject: https://www.instagram.com/reel/Csd4x1SAOQm/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

Today we meet Giana De Dier, a Panamanian artist whose mixed media collages and digital compositions examine the experiences of Afro-Caribbean migrants in the segregated Canal Zone at the beginning of the 20th century. A quickly emerging artist, Giana’s work has been shown in Italy, Washington, New York, London and Panama. She is the first artist to do an artist residency at the Panama Canal Museum, completing an intervention in the Museum’s historical archives to reassess a history that can be buried no more.Don't forget to follow our Instagram to view the works mentioned in the episode @SublimeArtProject: https://www.instagram.com/reel/Csd4x1SAOQm/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

In celebration of Pride Month, today we have the pleasure of speaking directly to Daniel Vais, Founder and Creative Director of Culture Device, Drag Syndrome, the first drag collective made up exclusively of people with Downs Syndrome, and the Radical Beauty Project, an avant-garde art and high fashion project bringing globally renowned photographers together with models with Down’s Syndrome. In 2019, Daniel Directed a powerful reinterpretation of Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring with a group of dancers with Down’s Syndrome at the Royal Opera House. He has Directed and Choreographed Drag Syndrome shows all over the world, including RuPaul DragCon, and the Tate Modern. With a smile and quite a bit of charming sass, has made space for those who have rarely been granted a voice.View the artwork we discuss on our Instagram @SublimeArtProject: https://www.instagram.com/reel/Csd4x1SAOQm/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

During this special episode in partnership with Frieze 91 recorded in May to a live audience during Frieze NYC, we hear from contemporary artist Daniel Dugan. American-Cuban Dugan has had a life-long practice of drawing this labyrinth-like line that never intersects. He has painted the line in all sorts of canvas: wood, fine fabrics, ceramics, bald heads, lawns, sand, wallets. His work is meditative and hypnotic, challenging us to see life not as a maze, but as a labyrinth.This interview took place at Japanese restaurant GG Tokyo, where Daniel was commissioned to paint a mural of his one continuous line. View the artwork we discuss on our Instagram @SublimeArtProject: https://www.instagram.com/reel/Csd4x1SAOQm/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==