Caryatide / Cosa Mentale
Spectre
Spectre is an iconographic magazine, published by Cosa Mentale Editions under the artistic direction of Mathias Gervais de Lafond. About a specific theme, major contemporary artists deliver their subjective interpretation of a reality. This collective work questions our sensitivity and destabilizes our daily relationship with objects and places. It awakens our poetic presence in the world.
2021
bilingual edition (English / French)
Caryatide / Cosa Mentale
After the first two issues Mineral Pornography and Vegetal Trauma, the 3rd issue of Spectre invites contemporary artists to deliver their interpretation of contemporary ruins.
2019
bilingual edition (English / French)
Caryatide / Cosa Mentale
sold out
This unedited issue of Spectre invites contemporary artists to share their interpretation of vegetal trauma.
2018
French edition
Caryatide / Cosa Mentale
sold out
A collective photographic series focusing on the on the subject of agalmatophilia—the sexual attraction for statues.