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May 2019

TERRA INCOGNITA

Terra Incognita comes out of the discovery of a land, explored by one who wants to be an observer and be observed at the same time. It is a voyage into the unknown, towards a space far away from the commonplace, which questions us and seems to be our accomplice yet keeps us at a distance. It plots a symbolic map in which the memory and the magic of the place appear. In this gam

September 2024

FEW LITTLE THINGS

Arcangeli of these little things cannot say, stop them in images, points of view in the inner space this can do; space inhabited by signs, symbols, allegories that it is virtuous play to make them converse or conflate so that they begin to speak to us in a language before the word: never stable, opening to further meanings. (A.C.) Arcangeli's latest work published with Grani edizioni consists of a series of im

October 2019

DECONSTRUCTING OSAMA: THE TRUTH ABOUT THE CASE OF MANBAA MOKFHI

In November 2006 Al-Zur (the Qatar-based news agency) photojournalists, Mohammed ben Kalish Ezab and Omar ben Salaad, pulled off one of the most stunning scoops in the annals of investigative journalism. Ben Kalish and Ben Salaad followed the trail of Dr. Fasqiyta-Ul Junat, a leader of Al Qaeda's military wing. This is how Joan Fontcuberta's latest fiction project starts. A complex and ironic vision of how Western World envisages the arabic world. Photography and deception m

June 2021

CHE FARÒ SENZA

After the success of Little Opera (2010), winner of the ADC Young Guns 9 in New York, Tomi Um and Strane Dizioni present the South Korean author's latest work: Che farò senza. Structured in a single strip measuring 35 x 350 cm, fully silkscreened in three colors and hand-bound in according style, the book populates the artist's personal vision of the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice.

December 2020

A Guide to the Flora and Fauna of the World

To what extent can we trust photography and science? Robert Zhao Renhui explores these questions in A Guide to the Flora and Fauna of the World, which appears to be an authentic catalogue of plants and animals but is in fact entirely fictitious. Renhui’s guide ostensibly “documents” 55 different animals, plants and environments that have been manipulated by man but do not appear to be, and examines the myriad ways in which humans are alt

November 2020

Rock/Music Writings

Rock/Music Writings collects Dan Graham’s influential writings about rock and roll music and its cultural impact. First published in 2009, Rock/Music Writings includes thirteen essays written between 1968 and 1988, most of which were originally printed in small magazines or journals, including Extensions, Fusion, REAL LIFE, and ZG. Graham was a friend and supporter of many musicians active in the No Wave scene that was centered around New York City in the late ’70s. In