This interview traces Tara Aghdashloo’s journey from a creative Tehran upbringing through journalism, curation, poetry, and painting into filmmaking. She discusses mentors Makhmalbaf and Naderi, her shorts The Ride, Bridge, and Empty Your Pockets, themes of systemic entrapment.
César Levy discusses leaving a decade in strategic consulting to found 193 Gallery, explaining how economic intelligence training shapes his business approach while artistic decisions remain guided by a mission to decentralize the art world’s Eurocentric narrative and champion underrepresented voices from Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean, and Southeast Asia.
In this Emaho interview, Constantin Prozorov discusses his surreal collage practice, where fashion, memory, and visual storytelling merge into dreamlike luxury worlds. Based in Paris, the German digital artist creates layered narratives that bridge art, culture, and fantasy, transforming collage into a contemporary language of imagination and refinement.
In this Emaho feature, Iraqi mixed‑media artist Nour al Asadi is presented as a layered storyteller whose work fuses illustration, architecture, and graphic design. The interview explores how she constructs rich, color‑driven worlds that foreground women’s narratives, identity, and emotional depth, positioning her practice at the intersection of art, design, and contemporary Cairo’s visual culture.
In this Emaho feature, Hanie Rahimian and Shiva Abazariyan emerge as a significant Iranian artist duo from Mashhad, redefining contemporary sculptural language through paper mache, ceramics, and installation. The interview explores how their collaborative practice channels memory, desire, and everyday fantasy into a shared, materially rich visual vocabulary.
Irene Noren is a Spanish‑Norwegian painter bridging tension, intuition, and transformation through her atmospheric oil paintings. In this Emaho interview, she speaks about moving between two worlds- her dual heritage, inner spiritual journey, and evolving practice – revealing how emotional ambiguity and intuition shape her quiet, image‑rich body of work.
