Surrounding the Living
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87 – The Living
The Living
Summer Spring 2016
Due to art historians’ recent interest in the field of animal studies, as well as Esse’s desire to contribute to awareness and transformation of humans’ relationship of domination with nature and the realm of the living, we were nevertheless encouraged to take a closer look at this phenomenon. We decided to address the subject through a non-anthropocentric perspective.
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Beyond Zoocentricism : An Interview with Giovanni Aloi
Engaging with Vegetable Others
From Critical Art to an Art of Reconciliation: Cohabitation with Non-Human Animals
Toward an Anti-Speciesist Aesthetic?
Fukushima’s Animal
Cultivating Connections: Michel Blazy’s Ecosystems in Motion
Humans on Display: A Subject Almost Like the Others
I am in animal
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Abstractions
Spring Summer 2025
Yet what about abstraction today? Long confined to formalist and self-referential imperatives, abstraction has gradually freed itself from the modernism yolk to recapture its evocative power. This issue proposes to turn away from the dogma of Abstraction as a historical genre to consider its various plastic and semantic avenues. In this invitation to explore abstractions, we wish to re-establish a dialogue between content and form, between the political and the poetic, by engaging with works that evoke reality differently. Whether they are qualified as abstract, non-figurative, or non-objective, these works certainly tell us stories.