What Future Does the Swallow Portend?
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New New Age
Spring Summer 2022
Over the last few years, the occult has made a stunning comeback in art, manifested through a re-appropriation of esoterism, a holistic and beneficial approach, and a desire for social and ecological justice. The works in the portfolio New New Age stand out for their powerful intention to re-enchant the world, recognize the agency of matter, and campaign against the destruction of Earth and for all living things, by exploring what is luminous and performative in this philosophy and its rituals.
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Hectic cycles. A conversation with Chrysanne Stathacos
Drawing Down the Moon
New Symbologies: Symbols and Spirits in Works by Julian Yi-Zhong Hou and Zadie Xa
Mine, Mine, Mine, Heal, Heal, Heal
Creative Conjuring, Ritual, and Place: Amanda Amour-Lynx’s Skite’kmujuawti in Conversation with the Works of James Gardner, Alana Bartol, and Jamie Ross
Correspondences and Undecidable Occult in Contemporary Art
Fabrice Samyn: Where Mystic Materiality Meets Subconscious Projections
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Plastics
Winter 2025
Analyzing plastic in the field of art runs the risk of raising many environmental dilemmas. Far from extolling plastic yet without denying its utility, this issue is interested in our ways of coexisting with synthetic material in order to evaluate the consequences and seek alternative solutions and to claim a kinship with what gives this material its glory: its plasticity, which expresses the power both to receive and to give form.
Cover: Dan Lam
Nibble, 2020.
Photo: courtesy of Dan Lam Studio, Dallas