A Body Apart with artist Amie Pascal
Sapphic Culture Club
English - February 23, 2024 08:09 - 41 minutes - 57.6 MBTV & Film Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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
Paintings we discussed specifically
Dead Ringer I & Dead Ringer II (the other two paintings that feature L'Ange Anatomique)
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")
People and things we mentioned
Leonora Carrington (Britain & Mexico, account run by her grandson)
Remedios Varo (Mexico)
Léonor Fini (Argentina)
Contemporary filmmakers and artists
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