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Episode X: Agnes Martin - I paint with my back to the world

Episode X: Agnes Martin - I paint with my back to the world

‧ 8m 4s

Martin brings the poetry of the non-visible world into visibility. And in doing so, she gives us permission to do the same. To stop pretending that what we see is all there is. To acknowledge that there are other ways of being and seeing.

Episode IX: Jordan Wolfson - I stuff the intuitive inside of the practical

Episode IX: Jordan Wolfson - I stuff the intuitive inside of the practical

‧ 11m 25s

Jordan Wolfson's creations leave a mark. Uncomfortable. Excessive. Alive, even when they shouldn't be. The technology is so sophisticated, you forget you're looking at something artificial.
If intuition is a form of cognitive efficiency, Wolfson's work is its opposite. It doesn't streamline. It overwhelms. Baroque in its intensity, and strangely timeless.

"I stuff the intuitive inside of the practical."
What does that really mean? New episode, Art unquoted.

Episode VIII: Rebecca Horn - There are energies that grab us from out there, pass through us,..

Episode VIII: Rebecca Horn - There are energies that grab us from out there, pass through us,..

‧ 7m 21s

"There are energies that grab us from out there, pass through us, and then find their way elsewhere." – Rebecca Horn

In memory of Rebecca Horn: "There are energies that grab us from out there, pass through us, and then find their way elsewhere." We explore how the artist transformed invisible energies into melancholic machines, precise films, and profound spiritual experiences.

Bonus Episode: Ohio. A cinematic landscape

Bonus Episode: Ohio. A cinematic landscape

‧ 6m 29s

Ohio: A Cinematic Landscape? What makes a place cinematic? In this personal bonus episode, Esenija travels through the architectural landscapes of Ohio; the quiet, overlooked streets of Hamilton. Inspired by Kelly Reichardt’s The Mastermind, filmed -among many other places- in Hamilton, she reflects on buildings that do not demand attention, yet stay with us: brick warehouses, Victorian storefronts, empty streets, and light falling on a façade. A meditation on architecture, cinema, and the art of truly looking.

Bonus Episode: A River of Time, A warehouse of Cultures

Bonus Episode: A River of Time, A warehouse of Cultures

‧ 8m 14s

The V&A East Storehouse offers radical freedom: browse a quarter million objects and curate your own experience. But what happens when we abandon the curator's guiding hand? A meditation on choice, curation, and the difference between democratization and consumerism.

Bonus Episode: Pierre Huyghe - An image is a situation. Not a photograph. But a situation

Bonus Episode: Pierre Huyghe - An image is a situation. Not a photograph. But a situation

‧ 9m 54s

What if an image only exists in the moment you look at it? Not before. Not after.
In this bonus episode, our host Charlotte explores two exhibitions by French artist Pierre Huyghe: UUmwelt at the Serpentine Gallery in London (2018) and his major new show at the Fondation Beyeler in Basel. At the center: a single sentence. "An image is a situation. Not a photograph. But a situation."
Flies. Dust. Reconstructed human thoughts. And a theory by biologist Jakob von Uexküll that says: without a living subject, there is no time.

A bonus episode about multiple realities, the nature of...

Bonus Episode: Uzbekistan Biennale 2013 and 2025

Bonus Episode: Uzbekistan Biennale 2013 and 2025

‧ 7m 11s

This is a Bonus Episode of Art Unquoted Podcast focusing on Uzbekistan Biennale in 2013 and 2025

Recently, the contemporary art world has turned its gaze toward Central Asia - Uzbekistan. Its ancient cities, and its newly launched Bukhara Biennial 2025. But for our host, Esenija, this wasn't a new discovery. It was a return.
Based on a true story: this bonus episode is a personal account of what happens when art, politics, and memory collide — and what remains when the spectacle collapses.