# @elephantmagazine on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DPBIsrQDSPU
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/34895824-elephantmagazine-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2025-09-25T08:00:00.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Elephant Magazine (@elephantmagazine) — https://gondola.cc/elephantmagazine

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“That’s the catch-22 of being a person of color in the art world. We need that support. We need those sales in order to make the work, but the hope is that these works find their ways to preferably free museums or institutions that do not charge admission: just because it’s in a museum, it doesn’t necessarily mean it’s going to be seen by people that did not have $25 in their pockets to hand over to step through the doors in the first place. I think that’s part of my attraction or why I feel that making public art is really essential, because these are pieces that anyone and everyone can see: these are not even people looking for art. They just happen to walk by it, and it’s there, and they can just keep walking or they can take a moment to really look at it. Some people even take the time to see who had made it, but that it has a presence.” #AlisonSaar 

The Los-Angeles based mixed-media artist and sculptor, Alison Saar (alison_saar) refuses to shy away from the complications and discomforts lineage and history offer, instead rooting her practice deep in that rich soil. Alison speaks to Arimeta Diop (uhharim) for Elephant. 

Salon, 2024, Cast bronze and stone, Collection of the City of Paris © Alison Saar. Courtesy of L.A. Louver, Venice, CA. Photography by Fred Mauviel.

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