In this Emaho Magazine interview, Meng Zhou (RCA MA 2018) traces her journey from China to London, channeling meteorites, shells, and burnt wood into Il Trovatore’s spatial memories and Star Chart’s cosmic mapping. As “Keeper of the Fire,” she probes ecology, myth, and time’s erosions across Dust to Dust and Hero Game.
In this Emaho Magazine interview, Sunday-S Gallery founder Peter Ibsen recounts overhauling his collection after a monochrome work defied interpretation, sparking a focus on minimalism’s perceptual depth. He explores friction-driven curation, domestic displays in Copenhagen/Paris homes, painting’s physical vitality, and loyalty amid speculation.
Tehran curator Takin Aghdashloo, son of Aydin Aghdashloo, discusses growing up amid classical art discipline, curating Event at Cromwell Place via Badiou’s rupture theory amid Women, Life, Freedom protests, Tehran fairs’ resilience, and bridging Iranian creativity to global discourse post-sanctions.
Curator duo Auronda Scalera and Dr. Alfredo Cramerotti redefine curation beyond gatekeeping – as ethical translators navigating AI authorship, Middle East’s experimental institutions, and slow intelligence against tech speed. They spotlight urgent artists like Hito Steyerl and Tabita Rezaire.
Tehran-born Sahar Khalkhalian, granddaughter of painter Houshang Pezeshknia, channels Iran-Iraq War fragility and migration – from Germany to Vancouver/Dubai – into faceless figures of isolation and fractured identity. This Emaho interview delves into her intuitive, emotion-fueled canvases, Turbulent exhibition, and New York’s pivotal shows.
Chilean painter Katarina Abović (b.1988) channels her painter grandmother’s influence and depression’s healing into Dynamic Painting—blurring body, energy, and abstraction. From Chilean roots to residencies in Vietnam, Honduras, and Croatia, this Emaho interview unveils her nomadic quest for consciousness’s “unexplainable space” through layered canvases.
