She has also been published in We're Still Here: An All-Trans Comics Anthology, Beyond II: The Queer Post-Apocalyptic & Urban Fantasy Comic Anthology, The. Filled with magic and transformation, there is a witchiness to Oppenheim’s work that “feels like it’s exceeding femininity, exploding it, and carrying it off into the dark ether.” Reflecting on how the artist might respond today were she to encounter this comic, Som says, “I’d like to imagine she would say: ‘Come, witchy sister, I’ll take you out for a beer. Bishakh Som is the illustrator and coauthor of The Prefab Bathroom: An Architectural History, and her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Buzzfeed, and the Brooklyn Rail, among others. In A Convening of Witches, the Swiss artist manifests as a kindred spirit whispering soft incantations into our ears. “I have tried, in my work, to talk about issues that are important to me (like being trans and South Asian, for example), but also to push the medium and to expand its formal boundaries.”īut Oppenheim figures as more than a source of inspiration for Som’s story. “Comics, a medium that has only begun to be taken ‘seriously’ in the past few decades, is still a new language to many,” says Som, the New York–based author of Apsara Engine and Spellbound. “If you speak a new language of your own, that others have yet to learn,” the artist Meret Oppenheim once cautioned, “you may have to wait a very long time for a positive echo.” For artist Bishakh Som, who drew on Oppenheim’s current exhibition as inspiration for this month’s Drawn to MoMA, this notion resonates.
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