CONTENTS
ANTI CYNICISM
30 Letter from the Editor
33 Reviews
50 Cover Story Like Sleeping Beauty Anne Imhof in Conversation with Arthur Jafa
74 General Idea: Cultural Criminals AA Bronson in Conversation with Gracie Hadland
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Ardor, Attrition P. Staff by Alex Bennett
104 The Curist O’Flaherthy’s, New York Jamian Juliano-Villani in Conversation with Whitney Mallett
113 Episode IV: Sleepnet/EulogiesbyArmature Globale with Eliot Haworth
130 A Nostalgia Queen Richard Kennedy in Conversation with Eleonora Milani
144 Visual Project Ventures Across time Ventura Profana by Bernardo José de Souza
161 CRITIC DISPATCH A Postmortem of #corecore by Y7
170 Show Them, Tell Them, Don’t Explain Sara Sadik in Conversation with Ben Broome
182 In Love, In Life, In Violence: The Art and Process of Unbecoming Pol Taburet by Louisa Elderton
194 A Way to Move Through It Ligia Lewis in Conversation with Isabel Parkes
+ Letter from the City B E T T E R P R O B L E M S by Autumn Knight
Reviews “Chryssa & New York” Dia Chelsea, New York by Chiara Mannarino / Barbara T. Smith “The Way to Be” Getty Center, Los Angeles by Emma Kemp / Ndayé Kouagou Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris by Lillian Davies / Isaac Julien “What Freedom is to Me” Tate Britain, London by Phoebe Cripps / (LA)HORDE Julia Stoschek Foundation, Berlin by Estelle Hoy / Marc Camille Chaimowicz “Nuit Américaine” WIELS, Brussels by João Laia / Roni Horn “I am paralyzed with hope” Centro Botín, Santander by Joaquín Jesús Sánchez
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ANNE IMHOF in conversation with ARTHUR JAFA photographed by JOSHUA WOODS GENERAL IDEA RICHARD KENNEDY AUTUMN KNIGHT LIGIA LEWIS VENTURA PROFANA P. STAFF SARA SADIK POL TABURET + SEMIOFUCK by ARMATURE GLOBALE + THE CURIST JAMIAN JULIANO-VILLANI on O’FLAHERTY’S, NEW YORK + CRITIC DISPATCH A POSTMORTEM OF #CORECORE
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ANNE IMHOF in conversation with ARTHUR JAFA photographed by JOSHUA WOODS GENERAL IDEA RICHARD KENNEDY AUTUMN KNIGHT LIGIA LEWIS VENTURA PROFANA P. STAFF SARA SADIK POL TABURET + SEMIOFUCK by ARMATURE GLOBALE + THE CURIST JAMIAN JULIANO-VILLANI on O’FLAHERTY’S, NEW YORK + CRITIC DISPATCH A POSTMORTEM OF #CORECORE
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ANNE IMHOF in conversation with ARTHUR JAFA photographed by JOSHUA WOODS GENERAL IDEA RICHARD KENNEDY AUTUMN KNIGHT LIGIA LEWIS VENTURA PROFANA P. STAFF SARA SADIK POL TABURET + SEMIOFUCK by ARMATURE GLOBALE + THE CURIST JAMIAN JULIANO-VILLANI on O’FLAHERTY’S, NEW YORK + CRITIC DISPATCH A POSTMORTEM OF #CORECORE
Issue 343 vol. 56 Summer 2023 ISSN 0394-1493 EU €18,00 UK £14,95 USA $19,95
Anne Imhof wearing Saint Laurent by Anthony Vaccarello in her studio, Berlin and New York, April/May 2023. Photographed by Joshua Woods, styled by Marc Goehring. Courtesy of the artist and Flash Art.
