Season 1 of Studio Visit takes you behind-the-scenes and breeze block walls of artist studios in London, widely considered Europe's artist capital. In the Pilot, Levin Haegele and Omar Kholeif visit artist, Celia Hempton. In this intimate convening, the listener falls head first into Hempton's universe: in the silence, standing still; from the studio, we free-wheel down the motorway and bear witness to the sites that fire her imagination; engage her poetry; as music simmers beneath the script, we dream with her, encased Celia's distinct aesthetic language.

Celia Hempton was born in 1981 into an artistic family in Stroud, UK. She studied painting at the Glasgow School of Art and the Royal College of Art. She is perhaps best known for her intimately scaled performative paintings that interrogate the politics of looking and being looked at. Over the last 15+ years, her work in music, performance, painting and installation has been exhibited widely at museums and galleries including the ICA Boston; the MCA Chicago; the Whitechapel Gallery, the Serpentine Galleries, and the ICA, all in London, and has featured in significant travelling shows such as the British Art Show and the Gwangju Biennale.

Music by Celia and Sam Hempton

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Raffaela Naldi Rossano is an internationally recognized artist primarily based in Naples and around the Mediterranean. Her creative practice is rooted in her studies in psychology—both Jungian and Gestalt Theory. Exploring the limits of desire, memory and ancestral forms of transmission, Naldi creates multimedia installations, which integrate sculpture, moving image, sound, collective action, poetry and the oratorial. In Episode 2 of Studio Visit, artist-curators, Levin Haegele and Omar Kholeif visit Naldi Rossano during her residency at Gasworks—her first extensive period spent in London since completing her MA at Goldsmiths in 2016.

An intimate embrace begins our episode. Together, we weave through and across a journey that takes listeners via portals of memory, music, and time. First, as Levin and Omar begin to play with the artist’s “transitional objects”— they activate questions of musical history, queer movement, concealed knowledge and the situated site of the body. With Naldi Rossano, they conjure ancestors—from the ocean and the poets—from London’s waterways through to Etel Adnan. This is #StudioVisit.

Studio Visit is an artPost21 Production in association with Tabari, Dubai.

Produced by Levin Haegele with Omar Kholeif.

Theme tune: Steller’s Sea Cow by CleckHuddersfax.

With thanks to Lawrence Abu Hamdan.

With thanks to Gasworks, London and Raffaela Naldi Rossano.

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