#19 - Ladan Sedighi on Abstraction
Ladan Sedighi creates works that gives a sense of pleasure and excitement, inviting the audience to interact with their reflection in delightful shiny surfaces. Moving around the artwork feels like being inside of a piece of jewelry, the colors changing and expanding in correspondence with the light in the room. We speak about how California has influenced her work both the glitz and glamour of Hollywood and the Light and Space movement combined with aesthetics of Persian art and architecture, all important sources of inspiration.
This is a special episode made in collaboration with Royale Projects, on the occasion of the group show If You Steal My Sunshine - California Abstraction Now, installed in the gallery November 3 – December 22, 2019
At the end of the episode, director Rick Royale speaks about how this group show came about. He and his team employed an unusual work method, sourcing the participating artists via Instagram. Narrowing down the search they found a group of six artists that had no obvious connection between them. Even so, the communalities found online presented a group of younger female artists that all have a connection to California and work with abstraction.
The exhibition titled after a song feels as sparkly, bright and positive as the one hit wonder from the 90s. The song If You Steal My Sunshine, a mix of different styles and genres, however, contains an eerie underlaying threat - what would indeed happen if that sunshine got stolen?
Sound engineer: Nate Kohrs