Symbolisms of the Body: a conversation with Lauren Oliver and Martha - hosted by Chimera Singer
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July 25th @ Peach Studio
Join us for an intriguing discussion on the symbolism of the body with artists Martha Naranjo Sandoval and Lauren Oliver, hosted in conversation with Chimera Singer. Explore the depths of artistic expression and the human form at PEACH STUDIO. This in-person event promises to be a thought-provoking experience that delves into the complexities of the body as a canvas for meaning-making. Lauren Oliver has previously published work with Martha’s publishing company Matarile Ediciones : this will be the first time they join in dialogue as artist and artist.
Lauren Oliver
Lauren Oliver (b. 1992, Forest Hills, New York) is a multidisciplinary artist working in Brooklyn, New York. Experimenting with photography, performance, and filmmaking, Oliver's creative practice is deeply rooted in both the technical and metaphoric significance of light in analog imagemaking. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in photography from SUNY Purchase.
Her photographs have been featured on i-D, Buzzfeed, F-stop Magazine, and The Luupe. Her first monograph, “Temple of the Self,” published by Monolith Editions in 2020, is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the Thomas J. Watson Library at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In 2024, she published her second book, "Puntas Abiertas," with Matarile Ediciones.
In addition to her artistic practice, Lauren teaches analog photography and filmmaking at the International Center of Photography, Gowanus Community Darkroom, and Mono no Aware. In September 2024, she will start her graduate studies at the Rochester Institute of Technology.
Martha Naranjo Sandoval
Martha Naranjo Sandoval is a Brooklyn-based visual artist, photographer, publisher, and cataloguer from Mexico City. Her work focuses on the family album as means of creating community around photography. She holds a degree in Film from Centro de Diseño, Cine y Televisión in Mexico City, and an MFA from the International Center of Photography and Bard College.
In 2023 she presented the solo exhibition The Stench of Orange Blossoms at Miriam Gallery, and in 2024, Flowering Wound at Baxter Street Camera Club of New York as part of their Artist-In-Residency program. She is the founder and director of the editorial project Matarile Ediciones, which publishes work by artists who are immigrants or part of a recent diaspora.
Chimera Singer (they/them) is a gender researcher, indterdisplinary artist, and Creative Director who currently lives in Brooklyn, NY. They also run the gatherings at Peach Studio.
Their commercial and editorial portrait work can be seen in places like the New York Times, Complex Magazine, and Teeth Magazine. They are currently finishing their masters at the New School in MediaXGender (thesis: The disembodied penis). They actively seek to integrate somatic and artistic practices into their academic queer research; their writing, research, and multidsciplinary projects are avidly curious, seek to break Euro-centric institutional convention, and fall at the intersection of queer, phenomenological, and feminist media theories. Chimera looks to bodies and their mediated expressions and tangible embodiments as avenues to generate Belongings.
Exhibitions include the Helsinki Photo Festival, MOPLA group show, Over-Compression at One-Eyed Studios, and their first solo exhibit at Living Skin. They recently became part of a group called the Sensitive Revolution where they sources experts and therapists to guide organizational leaders for anti-capitalist systems care and restructuring.
