Where Does It Hurt?
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Pain
Fall 2022
In recent years, the question of pain, whether physical or psychological, has become a hot topic in media and scientific discourses. This issue reflects on the place that pain claims in contemporary art through the production of forms and images of suffering that don’t forget the care, don’t ignore the trauma, and take the affects of the aesthetic relationship into account.
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Intractable Pain
Laura Magnusson’s Blue: A Somatic Archive of Pain
Animal Suffering and Human Supremacism
Pain Scale: Carolyn Lazard and the Immeasurability of Black Pain
Aesthetic Strategies against Big Pain
Care for Becoming: Sisters in Motion feat. d’bi.young anitafrika
Kept Awake: My Text Is a Nightstand Is a Text for You
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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.