ART
interview and photography by AMANDA CHARCHIAN
artwork by NEVINE MAHMOUD
stone carvings and glass pieces as a labor of love: the los angeles-based british artist nevine mahmoud sculpts highly tactile, sensual, and erotic works out of rock in the form of breasts, lilies, split peaches, and disembodied members.
AMANDA CHARCHIAN — What’s beautiful about your work is that it’s just so tactile. What inspired you to do those disembodied parts?
NEVINE MAHMOUD — The disembodied body is the most accurate representation of the history of feminism, in my experience — of being a woman and what it feels like in that body. I identify strongly with that dismembered physical presence: parts being interchangeable and alien even to themselves. The split peaches and lilies in stone are so suggestive of female genitalia that it was a natural progression to start making legs, torsos, breasts — cover all ground. And…