Purple Magazine
— The New York issue #39 S/S 2023
Jamian Juliano-Villani
INTERVIEW AND PORTRAITS BY OLIVIER ZAHM
NEW JERSEY-BORN ARTIST, CURATOR, AND PROVOCATEUR JAMIAN JULIANO-VILLANI KEEPS THE ART UNDERGROUND ALIVE.
OLIVIER ZAHM — So, how did you end up living in New York?
JAMIAN JULIANO-VILLANI — I’m from New Jersey, so I’ve been coming here forever on the train. I come from where they filmed The Sopranos, Basking Ridge, which is a very WASPy, nice country-club kind of bull-shit area.
OLIVIER ZAHM — Do you mean it’s weird and artificial?
JAMIAN JULIANO-VILLANI — We were the only people with a vowel in their last names in town. No one came to our house on Halloween because they thought we were in the mob.
OLIVIER ZAHM — I’ve always wanted to do a fashion shoot in one of those residential areas.
JAMIAN JULIANO-VILLANI — You should do it in Deal, New Jersey. Do you know Deal?
OLIVIER ZAHM — No.
JAMIAN JULIANO-VILLANI…
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JAMIAN JULIANO-VILLANI, INSTALLATION VIEW, “THE MILK OF DREAMS,” AT THE 2022 VENICE BIENNALE, COURTESY OF MASSIMO DE CARLO, PHOTO ROBERTO MAROSSI
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JAMIAN JULIANO- VILLANI, COMMUNIST WINDMILL, 2022, WOOD, ACRYLIC, 144 X 60 X 60 INCHES, COURTESY OF THE RANCH, PHOTO GREG KESSLER
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