Could I be a work of art? Fascination and repulsion for contemporary art with Spain's most alien star.

Some consider Samantha Hudson a buffoon . Even an aberration. Others believe she's a superstar of the highest caliber . A divine superfreak we don't deserve. A very smart woman with a truly remarkable appearance. Also a very absurd being. She says so herself. Her success is as deserved as it is improbable. Difficult to explain and impossible to ignore. It's there, period. Samantha is like contemporary art. In the Filmin podcast series, Will I Not Be a Work of Art?, she asks that question to art experts and artists. The answers are varied. I don't know if Samantha is a work of art, but I do know that she is pure contemporaneity. And she knows what she's doing.

Written by Carlos Cuevas Sedano, Patricia Esteban Baena, David Navarro, and Hudson herself, Won't I Be a Work of Art? is a collection of conversations with leading figures from the world of contemporary Spanish art: museum directors, cultural critics, artists, and more. The series begins, very astutely, with the aggressive Abel Azcona, a highly interesting character capable of generating both fascination and repulsion simultaneously. The people behind Won't I Be a Work of Art? know that Samantha Hudson can evoke the same reactions in viewers. They're also very clever and know what they're doing.

Who might be interested in a wide-ranging, intense, and paternalistic conversation about art? Aren't I a work of art? eschews elitist erudition, but also doesn't fall into the trivialization and in-law-likeness of "my three-year-old could paint that picture." Samantha Hudson confronts some of her interviewees with that now-classic, stale barroom comment. She does so from the position of a dumb blonde who, like Dolly Parton, knows she's not dumb (and that she's not blonde). Her mission isn't to tear down contemporary art. There are plenty of idiots on YouTube and Twitch for that purpose, capable of spouting embarrassing comments about art while behind them we see neon lights and, if we're lucky, a poster for The Dark Knight .

"Won't I Be a Work of Art?" aims to contextualize contemporary art, to put it in its place, to question it, and to respect it. It even aims to make us like it, to want to participate in it, and, as Manuel Segade, director of the Reina Sofía and one of the series' guests, argues, to make it our own and take a selfie with Guernica in the background.

Carlos Cuevas Sedano, Patricia Esteban Baena, David Navarro, and Samantha Hudson know that contemporary art can be many things, and boring is one of them. But it can also be controversial, scandalous, and even viral. In Won't I Be a Work of Art?, they shamelessly focus on profiles that, if only to generate crazy headlines (and yes, again: exaggerated headlines), have opened a gap in the very hermetic bubble of avant-garde art. Many will see Eugenia Tenembaum more as a polemical influencer than the disruptive popularizer she is. Just as they will be much more aware of Abel Azcona's issues with the Catholic Church (or his recognizable look, hat included) than of his radical artistic proposal. A work that the Filmin series, in a stroke of luck, captures in a moment of catharsis. Or not, because with Abel Azcona, you never know. And with Samantha Hudson, too. Won't I Be a Work of Art? It's the new Martian project from Spain's most Martian star . She doesn't sing, she doesn't dance, she doesn't paint, she doesn't sculpt, and she doesn't make video art... but don't miss it.