On the horizon of the district between old, handmade fences and the sky, you can see the newly built glass skyscrapers in the bright light of the coastal center of the city, as if portending future innovations of Bayil. (more…)
Born in 1977, Aurélia Frey is a graduate from the National School of Photography of Arles. She was a member of the art department in Casa Velazquez in Madrid. She took part in many artist-in-residences in France and in Norway (including the Musée de l’hospice Saint Roch in Issoudun, the Musée Picasso in Antibes, and Halsnoy Abbey in Norway in Norway).
Passionate about painting and literature, Aurélia Frey creates links between the visual and literary worlds and photography.
Her images question the notion of passage, try to create interactions between the frontiers of the different universes of representation: visible world vs inner world, reality vs imagination, the tangible and the abstract.
Apnée is a photographic project, devised when I was artist-in-residence at Musée de l’Hospice Saint-Roch at Issoudun and carried out in the Creuse and Berry regions of France. It is inspired by George Sand’s Contes d’une grand-mère (A Grandmother’s Tales), and by the collection of legends, (Légendes rustiques) written by her son, Maurice. George Sand wrote down the fantastical tales which she used to tell her grandchildren to save them from ‘rapid oblivion’. They are stories from another age, explaining a universe beyond reason. In my Apnée project, I explore Sand’s world and interpret these legends in my own way. I focussed my research on her landscapes and on mysterious interiors, which resemble the strange abandoned Castle of Pictordu in one of her tales where, among the ruins, the statues come to life. I sought to blur the boundaries between the real and unreal and between painting and photography to capture the supernatural atmosphere of Sand’s tales and create a dialogue between images from the past and from the present.
This collection of images is the basis for a book, Apnée, co-authored by the writer Emmelene Landon and published by Editions Nonpareilles.
Beneath Life is Silence (La vie repose sur du silence) is a collection created during my period as artist-in-residence at Halsnoy Abbey in Norway and inspired by The Boat in the Evening, a book by Tarjei Vesaas. I am drawn to the concept of transition, which he explores throughout his work, the passage between good and evil, shadow and light, water and earth. His writing translates the comings and goings of the mind as it meanders, the oscillation between mist and brightness, reality and dreams. These are all notions which reflect the themes that interest me: his strong relationship with the material world, his strange, pure characters, always slightly distanced from the rest of humanity, as if they had gone to seek out private worlds, but on journeys where the idea of transition and sudden change is always present. Those moments where things are no longer as they were and become other, when dreams are sometimes stronger than reality. Entering the world of Tarjei Vesaas is, as the writer himself says ‘not to understand but to be near what is happening’.
On the horizon of the district between old, handmade fences and the sky, you can see the newly built glass skyscrapers in the bright light of the coastal center of the city, as if portending future innovations of Bayil. (more…)
Over the course of his 50 year career, Sean Scully has created an influential body of work that has marked the development of contemporary abstraction. Fusing the traditions of European painting with the distinct character of American abstraction, his work combines painterly drama with great visual delicacy. (more…)
Celebrating its fiftieth year, the Walker Art Center’s annual showcase of local dance, Choreographers’ Evening, returns to the McGuire stage this November. Co-curators Judith Howard and Alanna Morris (more…)
Artpil proudly announces the 2022 selection for its annual 30 Under 30 Women Photographers. Founded in 2010, this series has helped emerging, mid-career, as well as some accomplished women photographers to gain further exposure (more…)
Artpil is seeking to expand the team. From contributors to freelance individuals in Rome, and beyond, whether you are a writer, photographer, designer/art director, we want to hear from you.
Since 2002, the Otolith Group (Anjalika Sagar, b. 1968, London; and Kodwo Eshun, b. 1966, London) has produced films, audio works, installations, exhibitions, and texts informed by extensive research, decolonial thinking and transcultural friendship. (more…)
Dia Center was founded in New York City in 1974 by Philippa de Menil, Heiner Friedrich, and Helen Winkler to help artists achieve visionary projects that might not otherwise be realized because of scale or scope. (more…)
The exhibition Chosen Family – Less Alone Together draws on international positions and works from the collection of Fotomuseum Winterthur to shed light on photography’s treatment of the (elective) family and its representation of it as a social and cultural construct. (more…)
First gaining attention in the 1960s with his exuberant portraits and landscapes, David Hockney remains one of the most celebrated British artists of his generation. He is also a key contributor to the development of art in Los Angeles, one of his adopted homes. (more…)