Artist Talk — Toni Pepe
Episode Summary
Professor and photographer Toni Pepe expands perception in her tactile assemblages, refracting notions of domesticity, memory, legacy, and mortality. Making visible the intangibles of human relationships — including past, present, and future perspectives — Pepe de-genders the universal role of caregiving.
In this conversation, Toni discusses, among other things:
Unpacking seeing
The family photo album
Pushing expectations of the image
Text as a tipping point
Enticing touch
Engaging viewers physically
Being driven by an idea
Collective learning
Cross-discipline experimentation
Stick-to-it-ness
Editing being crucial
The impact of when birth and death left the home
Artist Resources/Inspiration
An Ordinary Devotion, Danforth Solo Exhibition
Regretting Motherhood by Orna Donath
Undo Motherhood by Diana Karklin
How to Mend: Motherhood and Its Ghosts by Iman Mersal
Photographs Objects Histories: On the Materiality of Images by Elizabeth Edwards, Janice Hart
Hello, The Roses by Mei-mei Berssenbrugge
The Night Albums: Visibility and the Ephemeral Photograph by Kate Palmer Albers