How empowering can the art market be? How can a commercial gallery push boundaries? Be more inclusive? And what are the intersections between collections, trans rights, motherhood, family and queer communities? Sarah Le Quang Sang may not have all the answers, but she has all the good questions. She asks: why are birthdates important? Why is there an artistic career template? Who has access to museum collections? Art fairs?
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Gallerist Sarah Le Quang Sang showcases and promotes female and queer artists, fighting, one step at a time, to reduce the price gap between genders, the lack of LGBTQIA+ representation in archives, collections, art fairs and private collections, but also the linear conception of artistic careers.
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A new star in the constellation of London galleries, Sarah Le Quang Sang, established a commercial gallery in Shoreditch in 2024–SLQS–to champion female and queer artists. We mention her current exhibition of three Vietnamese artists, Vicky Do, Hua Dung-Clerget and Duong Thuy Nguyen, as well as the previous exhibition by trans non-binary artist Bex Wade which prompted an acquisition of their work by the V&A, now shown at Young V&A Bethnal Green.
We had to mention the Supreme Court Ruling in past April reducing gender to biological sex, and thus legally erasing trans women particularly, and the trans community in general. Bex Wade was invited to write about the photos of the exhibition (Queer nightlife in the US in 2010s, a time of lightness and joy) in the context of anti-trans movements rising and becoming more vocal. I read an excerpt of the text at the end of the episode.
Music by Sarturn.
Chapters
00:00:00 Introduction
00:06:42 Sarah Le Quang Sang
00:11:07 First Connection to Art
00:14:12 Art and Motherhood
00:17:04 Adapting and Reinventing the Rules
00:22:12 The Impact of Galleries’ New Ethos on Collectors
00:23:03 Why Open a Commercial Gallery Now?
00:25:51 Responding to Women and Queer Erasure in the Market
00:28:13 How to Understand Identity in Art
00:41:02 Future of the program
00:48:13 An Excerpt from Bex Wade’s Text Yes / No (Art Review)
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