Art Unquoted has been growing slowly, one conversation and one note at a time.
Our next episode turns to the work of Selma Selman. Her paintings and performances on salvaged metal draw on materials marked by labour, use and social exclusion. Together, Esenija Bannan and I explore how Selman shifts the value of these materials without smoothing over the realities they carry.
Alongside our conversations, I am beginning a series of shorter Art Unquoted Essays. The first, Blüte (Bloom), will be recorded in German. Starting with a work by Herman de Vries, it follows a question posed by the nineteenth-century physician and natural philosopher Gustav Theodor Fechner: what can we know of the inner life of plants?
It is a short reflection on the forms of life that remain partly beyond human understanding.
More conversations, stories and essays are on their way. Find more on artunquoted.com
