May 26, 2021
#10 If Only Walls Could Talk
A conversation with Magda Love & Jorge Otero-Pailos
In this 10th episode of the arts4society podcast, our guests Magda Love & Jorge Otero-Pailos tell us how they use walls as a creative medium. Listen as they share with us some of the stories that walls would tell, if only they could talk!
Both Magda and Jorge have a very peculiar and interesting relationship to the walls built around us. As a street artist, Magda likes to think of them as gigantic pieces of paper, which she uses to create strong and colorful narratives.
Driven by his training in architecture and preservation, Jorge is best known for making monumental casts of historically charged buildings, and invites us to consider their walls as powerful agents of change. Together with them, we explored how a wall can be more than a physical divider, and instead foster creativity and capture the passage of time.
Don’t miss Jorge’s upcoming exhibitions in New York at Sapar Contemporay and in London at Holtermann Fine Art, as well as Magda’s many murals including her ‘Soul Ancestors’ that adorn the City-As-School’s walls in lower Manhattan.
This episode was recorded on May 18, 2021.