A Body Apart with artist Amie Pascal

Description

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