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Studio Visit / Jai Chuhan
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Studio Visit / Jai Chuhan 〰️
Episode 3 of Studio Visit has Dropped! Listen here now.
In Episode 3: Professor Omar Kholeif aka Doctor O's Birthday Special, Studio Visit co-creator travels solo to South-West London to visit artist Jai Chuhan in her home studio. The penetrating smell of oil paint summons them in, through, and across orbitals of feeling. In this textured world, they traverse worlds of lustrous color, elongated bodies constituting womanist worlds, via speculative cartographies pulled from Chuhan's unbounded imagination.
Kholeif could have not have dreamt of a more thrilling encounter. They leave wishing that they had spent the decades sitting, looking, working, and dreaming with Jai Chuhan. Chuhan's art invites the spectator to navigate the psychological tension in her paintings, often exploring the possibilities of the female gaze. Chuhan, Kholeif believes, and argues, is arguably one ofGreat Britain's most significant painters working today, worthy of being lauded with medals, museum solo exhibitions, and so much more!!
OUT NOW: Huguette Caland / imagine otherwise by Omar Kholeif
with an afterword by Dr. Brigitte Caland.
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Lalitha Lajmi by Skye Arundhati-Thomas (imagine/otherwise 3).
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Nil Yalter: Circular Tension by Omar Kholeif published by Mousse. Available here.
Revisit archival photos of Beirut and its ‘Golden 60s’. Dive into a treasure trove of materials surrounding the first contemporary art gallery in Lebanon, Gallery One. Helen Khal: Gallery One and Beirut in the 1960s is co-edited and authored by Omar Kholeif with Carla Chammas and Rachel Dedman, following on from an exhibition curated by Dedman and Chammas at the Sursock Museum in 2019. You can preview or order your copy here.
Magda Stawarska by Omar Kholeif with an afterword by Lubaina Himid (imagine/otherwise 2). Available here.
Photo: Adam Keay, Those Days Come Back, Acrylic on Board, 2022. Courtesy the artist and the artPost21 Collection.
NEW “SPOTLIGHT” Series from our Editors
Enter the inner world of artist, Adam Keay. Two of his works have recently become part of the artPost21 Collection.
Read the interview with the artist here.
Dr. O’s Last Dance at the Third Line Shop
Watch artist Magda Stawarska in conversation with Lubaina Himid CBE RA, and author Dr. Omar Kholeif as they celebrate the launch of imagine/otherwise, volume 2—a travelogue through the life and work of Stawarska’s work.
Filmed at Toynbee Hall, London.
Order your copy of Magda Stawarska’s book HERE.
‘Magda Stawarska’ Conversation with Omar Kholeif and Lubaina Himid, Launch of imagine/otherwise volume 2 at Toynbee Hall June 2024