A Body Apart with artist Amie Pascal
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 Sapphic Culture Club on Instagram --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sapphiccultureclub/message