Robert Diament

Even if you're showing five artists, it always feels like you're presenting like a group exhibition rather than an art fair booth.

I think it's interesting that you had that time to kind of grow your voice as a gallerist quietly in Seattle.

And then when you did take it to an international stage in terms of art fairs before you moved the gallery, people were noticing.

So all the artworks were hidden?

Yeah, it's also a very poetic and classy kind of protest, you know, within a very corporate environment.

I also was thinking about your move to Mexico City and how interesting it is, the locations that you chose, because you have three locations currently for the gallery, Paris, Mexico City and Chicago.

And I was thinking a lot about the difference culturally in Mexico City, because it's a very...

unique location completely different to Europe and completely different to America especially in terms of being a person of African descent and of kind of African communities that live in Mexico City and I was really interested to explore that with you and also to think about the kind of collector base when it's like collectors who are of African descent themselves and how that has grown in Mexico City as one specific location for your gallery.

Yes.

Yeah, like international artists.

It was interesting as well because Ava had never been to Mexico City before she did her show with you.

And your invitation was like this kind of exciting thing for her because she had no idea.

I heard, you know, what to expect.

And even the idea of all the trees and the roots breaking through concrete, it's always the most magical thing for me.

I just love the way that you can't contain yourself

the energy, because also the fact of the high altitude there and the fact it was kind of built on, you know, water and all of those ancient civilizations.

And, you know, I went to the Anthropology Museum when we were there.

We had a guide who just was amazing.

She was like, maybe like 75 years old.

And she took us around and spoke about all these different histories within Mexico City, even just as a location in itself.