Grottos & Shells with Emma Witter & Krista Mileva-Frank

A magical conversation with Emma Witter and Krista Mileva-Frank about Shells and Grottos.. I first came across Emma’s work a couple of years ago.. Emma is an artist who makes work from found and waste ephemera. Looking back at heritage craft, she combines ancient materials with relatively recent scientific processes such as electroforming and kiln forming. When I asked Emma a few months ago to be on the podcast, she wanted to take her time to pick the right guest. Which brings us to our second guest, Krista Mileva-Frank.. Krista Mileva-Frank is a fourth-year PhD candidate in the History, Theory, and Criticism of Architecture and Art program at MIT. Her dissertation examines grottoes and rock landscapes in nineteenth-century France and Latin America in the context of environmental transformation, labor, and racial politics. Krista is the curator of the group exhibition Objects for a Heavenly Cave, on view at Marta Gallery in Los Angeles, 7-12th October.. The show features work by Emma Witter..LinksEmma: https://www.instagram.com/emma_witter_/?hl=en & http://www.emmawitter.co.uk/Krista: https://architecture.mit.edu/people/krista-mileva-frankThe Exhibition: https://marta.la/exhibitions/various-artists-objects-for-a-heavenly-cavehere is a link to the exhibition.The exhibition catalog, along with the GROTTO hat, can be purchased from the Marta Bookshop.Other artworks in the exhibition referenced:James Naish (Corycia bench)Lily Clark (superhydrophobic fountain Dew Point III)Emily Endo (scent-based piece Nymphaeum)Masaomi Yasunaga masaomi_yasunaga (Melting Vessel 熔ける器, 2024)Marta Gallery on InstagramFumi: https://galleryfumi.com/ & Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gallery_fumi/?hl=enMater on InstagramThe Mater website Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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The Mater Podcast explores materials through the eyes of artists and researchers. Host Maddie Rose Hills invites two guests to speak together about a material central to their practice. We will be speaking with seed keepers, artists, geographers, media theorists, writers, philosophers, archaeologists, and curators about the materials that fascinate them. The podcast is created off the back of Mater, a research project initiated by Maddie in 2021. Mater commissions new writing on the subject of materials, as well as hosting artist interviews and exhibitions. More at @mater________ & https://mater.digital/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.