Tishan Hsu, Ivor Stodolsky & Marita Muukkonen, Demna,
Louisa Gagliardi,
Marguerite Humeau, Rindon Johnson, Pavlo Makov, Berenice Olmedo, Jenna Sutela, Wu Tsang,
Raphaela Vogel ...
This summer issue is titled
DISPLACEMENT. In thinking about all the declinations the word can have with respect to a humanity increasingly in crisis, more than any other we have highlighted the disconnection from our corporeality as human beings and a widening gaze, from the
bios (human) toward new zoo/geo/technological subjectivities, that has set in motion other categories of actors and complex networks of affective relations.
The cover stories in this issue are dedicated to Tishan Hsu and
Louisa Gagliardi. Both worldviews present a restlessness: Gagliardi's resulting from a sense of dissatisfaction or unhappiness, and Hsu's from an attempt to read "what is happening internally in this new interface we increasingly inhabit, between the body and technology." Throughout the issue, we offer a neo-materialist view of life that rejects any form of undifferentiated and flat ontology, choosing to relocate anthropomorphic subjects by subtracting them from any pretense toward exceptionality.
In this issue: Tishan Hsu: Body Currents by Franklin Melendez; When Your Smile Is So Wide and Your Heels Are So High: The Paintings of Louisa Gagliardi by Louisa Elderton;
One to Watch. Berenice Olmedo: The Myth of Autonomy by Jane Ursula Harris;
Profile. A Forever Refugee: Demna by Charlie Robin Jones; Beyond the Limits of Empirical Knowledge:
Marguerite Humeau's New Ways of Thinking and Making by Adriana Blidaru;
Visual Essay. Wet-on-Wet-on-Wet-on-Wet. A collage of work by Jenna Sutela; No Word Can Hold A Person. Isabel Parkes in Conversation with Rindon Johnson; Misalignment Identities:
Raphaela Vogel by Eleonora Milani; Stepping Towards Something Like an Experience: The Wu Tsang's Moby Dick. A Conversation with Noam Segal;
Letter from the city by Pavlo Makov;
Questionnaire. Artists at Risk: A Conversation with Ivor Stodolsky and Marita Muukkonen by Frank Wasser.
Flash Art is a contemporary art and culture magazine (and a
publishing platform) founded in 1967. Within a decade, it became an indispensable point of reference for artists, critics, collectors, galleries, and institutions. In 2020,
Flash Art became a quarterly publication, at the same time increasing its trim size and updating its graphic identity. The magazine offers a fresh perspective on the visual arts, covering a range of transdisciplinary approaches and fostering in-depth analyses of artist practices and new cultural directions. Today,
Flash Art remains required reading for all who navigate the international art scene.
Flash Art is known for it covers featuring artists who subsequently become leading figures in the art world. The magazine includes photoshoots, productions, critical essays, monographic profiles, conversations with emerging and established artists, and a range of ongoing and thematic columns that change every few years. The long history of the magazine is also highlighted by pivotal texts from the archive that are included in the publication time to time. Finally, every issue offers a highly curated selection of the best institutional exhibitions on the global scene.
See also
Flash Art Volumes.
