AFTER THE IMAGE - Conversations on the Future of Painting

It can resist the immediacy of the image, but it can also absorb it, transform it, slow it down, and question the ways in which we look. Its persistence is not simply a matter of tradition: the medium continues to reinvent its own language, testing the boundaries between representation and abstraction, materiality and perception, memory and imagination.

AFTER THE IMAGE: Conversations on the Future of Painting is a series of conversations with contemporary artists whose practices offer different ways of thinking about what painting can be—and what it might become.

The series begins with the image, but does not end there. It looks at what lies beyond what is immediately visible: the processes, intuitions, memories, materials, gestures, and forms of attention that give a work its presence. Each conversation approaches the artist’s practice as both a personal and broader reflection on the medium, opening questions around perception, abstraction, colour, space, materiality, and the evolving relationship between painting and the world around it.

Rather than seeking a single definition of contemporary painting, AFTER THE IMAGE brings together different positions, languages, and sensibilities. The artists invited to the series approach the medium from distinct perspectives, yet share an engagement with its capacity to remain uncertain, physical, and open-ended.

At a time when the image seems increasingly detached from the physical world, these conversations ask what happens when an image becomes a painting—and, perhaps more importantly, what remains after the image.

The interviews that will follow are with:

* Marina Simao
* Quentin James McCaffrey
* Ali Banisadr
* GaHee Park
* Sedrick Chisom
* Marina Rheingantz
* Jonathan Lyndon Chase
* Nathanaëlle Herbelin
* George Rouy
* Daisy Parris

And others.

Main Image: Margherita Artoni, the author of the series