Ahndraya Parlato - On the Inbetween
About this episode
Gem Fletcher interviews Ahndraya Parlato about her book 'TIME TO KILL' and themes surrounding gendered aging and beauty ideals.
In this episode, Gem Fletcher talks to Ahndraya Parlato about her latest book, TIME TO KILL an interrogation of gendered aging, unpacking the ideals of beauty, caretaking, and maternal and domestic duty imposed on women over the course of their lives. In our roving conversation, we talk about selfhood, motherhood, sacrifice, visibility, censorship, the potency when you get text and image to work as you imagined and what happens to a project after its release. Ahndraya Parlato has a BA from Bard College and an MFA from California College of the Arts. She has published four books: TIME TO KILL [Mack Books 2026] Who Is Changed and Who Is Dead , (Mack Books, 2021), A Spectacle and Nothing Strange , (Kehrer Verlag, 2016), and East of the Sun, West of the Moon (in collaboration with Gregory Halpern), Études Books, 2014. She has exhibited work at: Spazio Labo, in Bologna, Italy, Silver Eye Center for Photography, Pittsburgh, PA, The Aperture Foundation, New York, NY, and The Swiss Institute, Milan, Italy. Ahndraya has been awarded residencies at Light Work and The Visual Studies Workshop, and grants from Light Work, and the New York Foundation for the Arts. She has been a…
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