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May 2020

NEW YORK

Giacomo Brunelli stalks the streets of New York with his old film camera, often for ten hours a day, looking for characters and details that are adrift in time. His work has an air of nostalgia to it, and a film noir sensibility. The images are dark, shadowy, moody and a bit menacing โ€” as if weโ€™re looking through the eyes of a night detective, a voyeur or a stalker. They provok
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May 2023

As a flower

โ€œHow can the photo of a flower hurt so much? If your photos, Sara, had a flavour it would be that of the wardrobe in which my mum stashed clean sheets and where I used to love hiding. If I close my eyes and smell As a flowerโ€™s photos, I squeeze my nose in clean laundry and wait for someone to come and look for me.โ€ Laura Rositani
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September 2023

Every Day is a New Day (2024 Calendar)

A tear-off calendar for 2024 by Dutch graphic designer Karel Martens. For each day of the year, Martens has created a unique arrangement, originally constructed using his signature method of printing letterpress monoprints from found metal forms, and then digitized to comprise 365 compositions in total. Every day is a new day!
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October 2023

Dysphoria mundi

"Since my desire to live outside the normative prescriptions of the hetero-patriarchal binary society has been considered a clinical pathology called 'gender dysphoria', it seemed interesting to me to think of the current world situation as a generalised dysphoria". "Dysphoria Mundi" is a diary of planetary transition that here takes the form of a mutant text, made up of non-fiction, philosophy, poetry and autofiction. Preciado, sick with Covid and locked up in his flat, draws on all genres to narrate a world
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November 2023

Dialect

The poetics of documentary, performance, and choreography combine to politically interrogate the dead time of bureaucracy for young migrants stuck in the Spanish legal system. Dialect covers three years of state violence for nine young Moroccan migrants exiled in Kafka-esque limbo in Seville, southern Spain. When underage migrants enter the country illegally and cannot be verified as adults, their custody remains in the hands of the state โ€“ subjecting them to a lengthy process of up
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November 2023

Esso: Shadows Oozing Gold

The volume was published for the Carloni-Franceschetti joint exhibition Esso: Shadows Oozing Gold, at the Institute for Contemporary Art in Zagreb, on display from the 27th of May to the 2nd of July 2022. The showโ€™s title takes its name from a cycle of works that the two artists had been developing from 2017. This series investigates, through temporal short-circuits bridging current events with Italyโ€™s collective memory, the various forms in which fascism takes roo
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