Guest artist SOPHIE VON HELLERMANN joins MARCELLE JOSEPH to discuss her work via 'Martyr!' by Kaveh Akbar. Originally published in 2024 by Knopf, it portrays bereaved Iranian-American writer, searching for a reason to live.
Sophie and Marcelle talks about love, survival sacrifice, guilt, lightness, martyrdom, autofiction, resourcefulness, addiction, mythology, baroque, discovering, uncovering, subconscious, action painting, dark angels, lavender buds, raw pigments, suicidal ideation, time travel, hot stones, fleeting images, crimson flowers, catalyst for change, painting on the walls and walking hand in hand with Turner along the beach in Margate.
SOPHIE VON HELLERMANN
@sophievonhellerman
'Wabi-Sabi: Untangling the Meaning of Beauty' until 14 September 2026, Paul Smith Space, London
Pilar Corrias Gallery London
'Sophie von Hellermann: Letters to a Young Painter' until 13 June, Wentrup Gallery, Berlin
'After a Dream' 30 April - 20 June, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York
ARTISTS
Caspar David Friedrich
Dieter Krieg
Francis Bacon
Henri Matisse
Marlene Dumas
JMW Turner
Paula Rego
Robert Kushner
Vincent Van Gogh
BOOKS + WRITERS
Arthur Conan Doyle 'The Hound of the Baskervilles'
Hafez
Virginia Woolf 'Mrs Delaware'
Rainer Maria Rilke 'Letters to a Young Poet', 'The Panther'
Rumi
