Interviews
"If it is absolutely necessary for art or theater to serve any purpose, it will be to teach people that there are activities that are useless and that it is essential that they exist."
-Eugène Ionesco
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Chaos and control
The project grew out of a need to pause and notice what usually goes unseen: the subtle, almost fragile moments between movement and stillness. I learned to trust doubt as part of the process, not as weakness, but as something that keeps the work alive.
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Au soleil
Siempre habrá una silla, un huequito, para sentarnos la una al lado de la otra. “Au soleil” cuenta una historia de amor entre las chicas de esas fotos, y el estribillo es una promesa de esperarla au soleil.
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Somewhere in between
I realised I should trust those first takes, my intuition and instincts. A lot of inspiration for my work comes from the things that I feel, imagine, remember, long for, love doing or wish I’d be doing more.
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Fragments from a cereal box
They include small, flat ceramic figurines that I make based on tracings of drawings my Gramma did for me when I was around four years old. She would draw them on the backs of cereal or cracker boxes, and I’d lay them out on the TV room floor.
Places
“A city is like an animal. It has a nervous system, a head, shoulders, and feet. Every city is different from every other: no two are alike. And a city has collective emotions.”
-John Steinbeck
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Cà Phê Lalot
Right before we got the keys to our restaurant we were guest chefs in Bangkok, so we took the chance to visit as many traditional breakfast places as we could. The atmosphere of those places is the key inspiration for us and the essence of feeding the working people in the neighborhood is what we do now.
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Café Fokus
Florent Vatin How did this place come about and what made it different from the start?We met through skateboarding in Vienna and had both been skating for more than twenty years. But we never really liked being labelled as skaters, and we certainly don’t see Fokus as a “skate café”. Still, skateboarding is part of our…
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Grettha
Hoy seguimos viendo nuestro trabajo como una misión en construcción: crear hábitos, acercar experiencias significativas y demostrar que incluso en mercados donde la cultura de cafetería aún está desarrollándose, es posible generar comunidad alrededor de una buena taza de café.
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Rosebar Centrala
Running a restaurant comes with many different challenges and competing priorities, but we are hosts before we are cooks or businesspeople. A good and successful restaurant has to live by that. The food can be excellent, but people also need to feel genuinely welcome and cared for.
Writing
“Sea cual sea nuestra condición, siempre debemos hacer lo que queramos, y si queremos emprender un viaje, entonces debemos hacerlo y no preocuparnos por nuestra condición, incluso si es la peor condición posible, porque, si lo es, estamos acabados de todos modos, ya sea que emprendamos el viaje o no, y es mejor morir habiendo hecho el viaje que hemos estado anhelando que ser sofocados por nuestro anhelo.”
-Thomas Bernhard
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Sincronía
Si no estás sincronizada con el flow —con la gente saliendo del metro o la luz verde en un cruce— puedes marearte. Necesitas cierta inconsciencia para avanzar. Basta que uno pierda el compás para recordar lo cerca que siempre estuvo el desastre.
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Mujer, pájaro
Precisamente ahora, que me senté a meditar, vino a mi cuerpo el dolor que estaba distrayendo con pantallas, y pude escuchar el cansancio de mi espalda. Ahora que exhalé el aire que estaba guardando en mis pulmones con tanta ansiedad, se destapó la cloaca de mi garganta y se evaporó el sabor a podrido que…
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Mi casa rosa
Mi casa, ¿cuál casa? ¿Qué casa? ¿Mi casa quién? ¿Mi casa dónde? Todavía no entendía por qué corría tan desenfrenada y sin gritar. ¿Mi casa quién? ¿Mi casa dónde? A vos te costaba la poesía y a mí me costaba el poema. Yo solo quería saber ¿dónde estaba mi casa?
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Tirarnos por fin al vacío
En Estados Unidos los accidentes de coche suceden porque la gente está acostumbrada a seguir las reglas, y cuando alguien las rompe todo se vuelve un desastre. En otros lugares el desastre ya está incluido desde el principio. No hace falta que alguien lo rompa. La gente está lista para que pase cualquier cosa: vive…
Magazine
“I'm always so amazed when people talk about a definitive edition! How can an author not regret an awkward point or an adjective? It's absurd.”
-Jorge Luis Borges
Prints
“Personally, I can't live without my art. But I've never put that art above anything else.”
-Albert Camus
Books
"I'm not one of those who only thinks among books, inspired by books; however, I tend to think outdoors, walking, jumping, climbing, dancing, especially on lonely mountains or by the sea, where the paths themselves become thoughtful."
-Friedrich Nietzsche
