Dare to Dream
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Dreams
Fall 2024
Although dreaming is not unique to human beings, our species has always paid particular attention, even to the point of being obsessive, to the experience of dreams. From the ancient beliefs of divination or oneiromancy to the psychoanalytic approach of Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung, dreams have been used as powerful tools of self-knowledge or world-control. In the hands of artists, dreams become particularly rich materials to explore, especially since their connection to art is profound: the significance of mystery and ambivalence, the desire to resist interpretation, the ability to imagine reality in other ways. The feature section reflects on everything that defines dreams, from the mental activity that happens during sleep to the manifestation of desires or aspirations that transpires when awake, including the capacity of dreamers to represent other worlds.
Cover: Véronique La Perrière M
Le jour, le soleil, la nuit, l'abyme, les étoiles, 76 x 56 cm, 2019.
Photo: courtesy of the artist
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Crip
Spring Summer 2026
While “handi” (short for the term “handicapé” in French) and “crip” (derived from “cripple,” meaning “disabled”) are diminutive forms of stigmatizing terms, the meaning we ascribe to them is by no means reductive. On the contrary, they carry a political weight that provides those who embrace them with a powerful tool for empowerment, offering disabled artists non-normative ways for articulating the strange temporalities of disabled experience and alternative ways for navigating an ableist art world. In this issue, we are interested precisely in this work of social, political, and cultural transformation, and we focus on the ways in which crip authors and artists address the different challenges they face.
Cover: Hac Vinent
Accident, exhibition view, Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, 2024.
Photo: Roberto Ruiz, courtesy of the artist & ADN Galeria, Barcelona