Square Meters

Italian director and performer from Treviso (Italy), Silvia Costa proposes a visual and poetic theatre nourished by a deep reflection on images. Alternating roles as writer, director, interpreter, and set designer, this protean artist crosses different aesthetic fields in a personal exploration of Theatre. Her creations are regularly presented in major Italian and international festivals.

Square Meters starts the second season welcoming the listeners into the studio of Thomas Sauvin, author of the project Beijing Silvermine. Since 2009, the French collector and artist Thomas Sauvin has salvaged discarded negatives from a recycling plant on the edge of Beijing, negatives that were destined to destruction. His Beijing Silvermine archive, one of the largest archival projects in China,...

Square Meters is a sneak peek art culture podcast hosted by Alessandra Chiericato and produced by The Room Projects. In this second season, Alessandra introduces the listeners into the studio of nowadays artists and authors. From the description of their actual workplace to the designation of a potential one, the podcast offers a unique perspective from some of the most interesting people in the v...

🇬🇧🎙️ Square Meters ends its first season with a focus on The Room Projects. Talking about The Encyclopaedic Palace curated by Massimiliano Gioni, the role played by images in our research and curatorial practice, to finish with some thoughts around this podcast, Alessandra Chiericato, our curator and director, lets you peek in our Room. This episode has been recorded in 2020 at The Room Projects’...

🇬🇧🎙️ Square Meters takes you inside the creative studio of Spanish visual artist María Tinaut. Her artistic journey began as an abstract painter until she was admitted to the Fine Art faculty of Virginia Commonwealth University. There, she started experimenting with mediums, questioning herself about photography and reproduction. Starting with the description of her personal photocopy archive that...

🇬🇧🎙️ Square Meters takes you inside the creative studio of French-Caribbean painter Alexandre Lenoir. After a life-changing experience in Casablanca, Alexandre found himself questioning his personal approach to painting in relation to his position in contemporary art. Starting by introducing Garance Butler-Oliva, one of his most inspiring collaborators, talking about the influence of people’s ener...

🇬🇧🎙️ Square Meters takes you inside the creative studio of writer and visual artist Adrien Van Melle as its guest. For him, everything starts from a simple $1 notebook, in which a fragment of a conversation or a short story creates suggestions for a possible installation. Talking about an old mobile phone, about an orange chair stacked in a corner of his Parisian studio, to finish with the story b...

🇬🇧🎙️ Square Meters takes you inside the creative studio of painter Dorian Cohen. Born in Paris in 1987, Dorian’s practice started with influences coming from public spaces, architecture, and urbanism. Looking for the juxtaposition between the beauty and the unsightly, the artist tries to reveal the pictorial potential of ordinary life through the codes of the classical figurative tradition. To sta...

🇬🇧🎙️ Square Meters takes you inside the creative studio of painter Rebecca Brodskis. Born in France in 1988, Rebecca’s childhood was spent mostly traveling around the world. Her nomadic lifestyle has greatly influenced her practice, which led her to a deep fascination for human beings. Talking about the employment of an old Renaissance technique to prime the canvases, passing by the encounters she...

🇬🇧🎙️ Square Meters takes you inside the creative studio of sound artist Nicola Ratti. Born in Milano in 1978, Nicola has been active for years in the experimental fields. Since May 2015, he has been one of the founders and curators at Standards, an experimental sound research gallery located in Milano. Today he works as a musician, as sound director and sound technician with Romeo Castellucci–Socì...

🇬🇧🎙️ Square Meters takes you inside the artist studio of the ceramic artist King Houndekpinkou. Born in Montreuil in 1987, King's childhood in the suburbs of Paris was greatly influenced by the Japanese pop culture of the 90s, which led him to develop a fascination for Japan during his teenage years. For King, ceramics stood as a revealing material of the spiritual bond existing between the West A...