The hardback copy of ‘Confined Artists – Free Spririts: Portraints and Interviews from Lockdown 2020’. Photo by Maryam Eisler
During the lockdown of 2020, Maryam Eisler brought together 164 of the world’s most influential artists, interviewing and photographing them over video calls to create a unique series of portraits and accompanying insights. As we anticipate the physical launch of Confined Artists – Free Spirits: Portraits & Interviews from Lockdown 2020, LUX speaks to Maryam about looking back on her unique creative journey from a post-pandemic perspective
It was April 2020, and Maryam Eisler was feeling restless. With her usual schedule of travelling round the world, exploring and creating curtailed, she sat at home pondering a life without movement. Thus, in a rare circumstance of  stasis, a one-of-a-kind project was born. The result" 164 conversations, 164 unique portraits, and their assemblage as a wider piece of art. An exploration into the minds and hearts of artists across the globe during one of the most significant historical events in many of our lifetimes. As she says herself, it is: ?a collective stamp of a moment in time. It is a memory, a capsule of a moment in history.? She managed to capture an important frame in the history of the modern art world.
Ron Arad seeing his work Oh Lord, Won’t You Buy Me" for the first time at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2020. Photo by Ron Arad and Associates Limit...