Mandy El-Sayegh, Flavia Frigeri and Valerie Cassel Oliver | Frieze Masters Podcast
The seventh episode, On Interiors, is now available, presented in collaboration with dunhill
The seventh episode, On Interiors, is now available, presented in collaboration with dunhill
The London home of Galerie Thaddeus Ropac is a traditional eighteenth-century Mayfair townhouse, once home to the Bishop of Ely. But for artist Mandy El-Sayegh’s 2023 exhibition ‘Interiors’, its spaces were transformed into a riot of colour and pattern across paintings, textiles and furniture. In On Interiors, El-Sayegh talks to Dr Flavia Frigeri of the National Portrait Gallery, and Valerie Cassel Oliver of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, who is also the curator of the 2023 Spotlight section at Frieze Masters, about the relationship between inner and outer space: the space of the studio and the space of exhibition and how art displayed connects to an artist’s inner life.
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I metabolise my material. […] Everything has to be processed in the studio. If I’m going through something, I’ll have to deal with it and work with it physically in the studio. – Mandy El-Sayegh
Find works discussed in this episode here:
Mandy El-Sayegh, ‘Interiors’ at Thaddaeus Ropac Gallery, London, 2023. Photo: Eva Herzog; courtesy the artist and Thaddaeus Ropac gallery, London, Paris, Salzburg, Seoul
Mandy El-Sayegh, ‘Interiors’ at Thaddaeus Ropac Gallery, London, 2023. Photo: Eva Herzog; courtesy the artist and Thaddaeus Ropac gallery, London, Paris, Salzburg, Seoul
Mandy El-Sayegh, Enfleshing, St. Petri Church, Lübeck, Germany, 2023. Photo: Fred Dott; courtesy the artist, Overbeck-Gesellschaft, Lübeck, and Thaddaeus Ropac gallery, London, Paris, Salzburg, Seoul
Mandy El-Sayegh Induced States, UTA Artist Space, Los Angeles, 2022 (rehearsal) Performers: Alethia Antonia, Mandy El-Sayegh Photo: Josh Rose; courtesy the artist, UTA Artist Space and Lehmann Maupin, New York, Hong Kong, Seoul, and London
Mandy El-Sayegh, Akathisia, 2023. Sound by Lily Oakes. Projections by Foreign Body Productions. Performed by Mandy El-Sayegh and Yuma Sylla at Lehmann Maupin, New York, April 2023 on the occasion of the exhibition The Amateur, Photo: J Tinneny; courtesy the artist and Lehmann Maupin, New York, Hong Kong, Seoul, and London
Mandy El-Sayegh, Akathisia, 2023. Sound by Lily Oakes. Projections by Foreign Body Productions. Performed by Mandy El-Sayegh and Yuma Sylla at Lehmann Maupin, New York, April 2023 on the occasion of the exhibition The Amateur, Photo: J Tinneny; courtesy the artist and Lehmann Maupin, New York, Hong Kong, Seoul, and London
Installation Mandy El-Sayegh ‘Interiors’ at Thaddaeus Ropac Gallery, London, 2023, installation view. Photo: Eva Herzog; courtesy the artist and Thaddaeus Ropac Gallery, London, Paris, Salzburg, Seoul
Installation Mandy El-Sayegh ‘Interiors’ at Thaddaeus Ropac Gallery, London, 2023, installation view. Photo: Eva Herzog; courtesy the artist and Thaddaeus Ropac Gallery, London, Paris, Salzburg, Seoul
Mandy El-Sayegh’s Studio. Photo: Eva Herzog; courtesy the artist
Mandy El-Sayegh’s Studio. Photo: Eva Herzog; courtesy the artist
Mandy El-Sayegh’s Studio. Photo: Eva Herzog; courtesy the artist
Mandy El-Sayegh’s studio. Photo: Abtin Eshraghi; courtesy the artist
Mandy El-Sayegh’s Studio. Photo: Eva Herzog; courtesy the artist
Mandy El-Sayegh’s Studio. Dermatological diagnostic reference booklet and pantone colour reference booklet. Photo: Abtin Eshraghi; courtesy the artist
Mandy El-Sayegh, ‘Interiors’ at Thaddaeus Ropac Gallery, London, 2023. Photo: Eva Herzog; courtesy the artist and Thaddaeus Ropac gallery, London, Paris, Salzburg, Seoul
Mandy El-Sayegh, ‘Interiors’ at Thaddaeus Ropac Gallery, London, 2023. Photo: Eva Herzog; courtesy the artist and Thaddaeus Ropac gallery, London, Paris, Salzburg, Seoul
Mandy El-Sayegh, ‘Interiors’ at Thaddaeus Ropac Gallery, London, 2023. Photo: Eva Herzog; courtesy the artist and Thaddaeus Ropac gallery, London, Paris, Salzburg, Seoul
Mandy El-Sayegh, ‘Interiors’ at Thaddaeus Ropac Gallery, London, 2023. Photo: Eva Herzog; courtesy the artist and Thaddaeus Ropac gallery, London, Paris, Salzburg, Seoul
Mandy El-Sayegh is a London-based artist whose practice is rooted in assemblage. Valerie Cassel Oliver is the Sydney and Frances Lewis Family Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Dr FlaviaFrigeri is an art historian, lecturer and ‘Chanel Curator for the Collection’ at the National Portrait Gallery, London.
About Frieze Masters Podcast
The Frieze Masters Podcast is now available, bringing you our annual programme of live talks – the Frieze Masters Talks programme – curated by the Director of the National Portrait Gallery, Dr Nicholas Cullinan. These conversations between leading artists, writers, museum directors and curators all reflect the ethos of the Frieze Masters fair: looking at the past with a contemporary gaze.
The Frieze Masters Talks programme and the Frieze Masters Podcast are brought to you by Frieze in collaboration with dunhill, the foremost British luxury menswear house.
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