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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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.