Laura Frade

Jan 10, 2025 | apartamentomagazine.com | Laura Frade

In his adopted home of New York City, we celebrated the launch of Mel Odom — Gorgeous! with the artist himself. Just a few blocks away from the Christopher Street haunts that inspired many of his paintings and drawings, Mel met with readers at Bookmarc for a special signing of his new monograph, edited by Luis Venegas. The December signing marked the end of a year that connected us with Apartamento friends and family in Seoul and Stockholm, from Milan to Tokyo and beyond.

Oct 16, 2024 | apartamentomagazine.com | Laura Frade |David Zilber

Originally published in Apartamento magazine issue #33With all the holes in you already, there’s no reason to define the outside environment as alien. —Jenny Holzer, Survival Series, 1983In Flatland, 19th-century theologian Edwin Abbot Abbot penned a thought experiment-cum-satirical novella where all sorts of problems arise from a world without a Z-axis, from navigating a household to identifying the face of a loved one. Worst of all, without depth, it becomes very hard to eat.

Jun 6, 2024 | apartamentomagazine.com | Laura Frade |Jenny Wu

Originally published in Apartamento magazine issue #33The photograph of the missing being, as Sontag says, will      touch me like the delayed rays of a star. —Roland BarthesWe often say we ‘consume images’, thereby yoking vision to gastrointestinal processes. The act of consuming evokes various emotions such as guilt, comfort, and, for those fixated on the uncertainty principle of spoilage inside the icebox, a sense of control.

Feb 24, 2024 | apartamentomagazine.com | Laura Frade |Camille Okhio |Jacob Feingold

What is your first memory of food? A smell, a taste, or a colour? It’s all three together. It’s very clear to me: It was in my father’s garden, eating fennel. I remember the taste because he said it was a liquorice. He always tried to trick us kids into eating vegetables by saying it was candy. You write a lot in the book about how memories, images, and feelings influence your cooking.

May 26, 2023 | apartamentomagazine.com | Laura Frade