Why continue to produce objects today? In a world saturated with artifacts and facing ecological urgency, the very legitimacy of production seems to waver. Starting from this question, issue 61 of Azimuts brings together designers, researchers, artists, and students around contemporary object practices.

Leading contemporary artists and thinkers elaborate on how our increasingly networked societies are shaping—and shaped by—exchanges among people and machines.

A look at a href="index_theme.php?id=224&menu=4">South Korea's contemporary art scene through the medium of video art.

The Queen of Kitsch by Olivia Kan-Sperling, Palantir Goes to MoMA by Simon Denny, The Totemic Returns by Glenn Adamson, Ben Lerner's Devices by Gemma Sieff...

22 new dreamlike (or nightmarish) living tableaux by Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari.

Why continue to produce objects today? In a world saturated with artifacts and facing ecological urgency, the very legitimacy of production seems to waver. Starting from this question, issue 61 of Azimuts brings together designers, researchers, artists, and students around contemporary object practices.

A poetic pathway exploring a series of stories related to the art produced in Brazil since WWII.

Scholar and curator Christine Eyene serves as guest editor for this special issue, featuring a central section dedicated to the work and place of women—particularly Lubaina Himid—within the Black Arts Movement.

Retail Vérité: Vancouverama is A Maior's second novella, and the outcome of writing workshops led by A Maior at Western Front in February 2025. Through a blend of improvisation, LARPing, and speed dating, the participants sketched the characters, narrative, and setting in real time.

The story of Tony the Donkey! A children's book illustrated by Artur Varela (1937–2017), completed shortly before the Portuguese artist's death, adapted and published posthumously by Daisy Publishing.

First monographie.

This revised edition of Louise Colet’s Voyage en Orient (1873)—a vivid account of the poet, novelist, and committed feminist journalist’s enchanted discovery of nineteenth-century Egypt—brings to light a passionate literary work that has long remained overshadowed by her famous, tumultuous romantic affair with Gustave Flaubert.

A text that is both humorous and political by visual artist and author Laurence Denimal.

Artist's book, produced in limited print run in the Palais de Tokyo's risography micro-publishing workshop.

Artist's book, produced in limited print run in the Palais de Tokyo's risography micro-publishing workshop.

First monograph on the Swedish artist.

Readers are invited into an immersive, oceanic way of seeing—where the boundaries between body, technology, and environment dissolve into continuous transformation.

P. Staff's first collection of poetry.

A renewed reading of Walter Pfeiffer's photographic practice.

Hosting Space explores how processes of hosting, such as access, support, and gathering, operate within the context of an art institution. It invites readers to reconsider how these activities are embedded in the spaces we inhabit and how they shape spatial practices.

Alexis Nouss's manual on cultural resistance in seven lessons.

By retracing the history of three colossal candelabras made by Piranesi (1720–78) from fragments of ancient Roman sculptures, Caroline van Eck introduces us to the complicated journey of art objects from their production to their reception, and tests the effectiveness of anthropological methods by isolating what relates to the commodification of art objects and their singularization.

The choreographic in cinema.

An exploration of the utopian labyrinth that has fueled the imagination and work of internationally renowned architect Rudy Ricciotti.

An exploration of the utopian labyrinth that has fueled the imagination and work of internationally renowned architect Rudy Ricciotti, through a quasi-cinematic montage of images and quotes, constituting a stroll through the mind of the “character” Ricciotti, each space visited punctuated—as in a voice-over—by a text by Jean-Louis Poitevin.

First monograph of pioneering Saudi artist Saad Almasari, tracing a practice shaped by place, memory, and the enduring logic of geometry.

Reference monograph.

A dialogue between the creations of the two designers.

A dialogue between the creations of the two designers.

A collaborative album born from a live performance rooted in a meticulous mutual observation of each musician’s playing style and setup: eRikm’s turntables, electronic devices, and vast sound library; and Pierre Bastien’s mechanical orchestra and range of acoustic instruments.

A comprehensive retrospective of the Spanish artist's work, covering his major exhibitions (Manifesta, Reina Sofia, MACBA, Raven Row, etc.) and including all of his texts published as fanzines over a period of twenty years, a new critical essay by Kim West, and a wide-ranging conversation.

An essay by Alexandra Midal on visual learning experiences through images, based on two revolutionary projects by major 20th-century designers: Charles & Ray Eames, Georges Nelson and Alexander Girard, and Ken Isaacs.

First monograph of Saudi artist Fouad Mogharbel.

Witches of Design interweaves design with the rebellious and feminist figure of the witch, based on the history of the messianic, socialist, utopian, and egalitarian Shaker sect in the 18th century.

Witches of Design interweaves design with the rebellious and feminist figure of the witch, based on the history of the messianic, socialist, utopian, and egalitarian Shaker sect in the 18th century.

Witches of Design interweaves design with the rebellious and feminist figure of the witch, based on the history of the messianic, socialist, utopian, and egalitarian Shaker sect in the 18th century.

Witches of Design interweaves design with the rebellious and feminist figure of the witch, based on the history of the messianic, socialist, utopian, and egalitarian Shaker sect in the 18th century.

Interviews with Machine Listening, Tomomi Adachi, Erin Gee, Pedro Oliveira; article: The Watery Graves of Electronic Speech, or Phonemes in Davey Jones' Locker; reports: Festival de la Imagen 2025, Choose Your Filter!...

A comprehensive illustrated compilation of typographic works produced by bachelor and master students at ECAL over the past ten years.

The relationship between art, agriculture, and biodiversity.

A layered and polyphonic investigation that, setting out from the Orobic Alpine territory in Northern Italy, explores the mountainside not merely as a natural backdrop but as an epistemological lens through which to understand and rethink the contemporary world.

"Five Friends" (John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Cy Twombly) by James Meyer, Bettina by Katherine Rochester, Jacob Lawrence by Michael Lobel, Whither Biennials? by Tina Rivers Ryan, Daniel Birnbaum, Manuela Moscoso, Michelle Grabner, Wassan Al-Khudhairi, Raphael Fonseca, Ho Tzu Nyen, Smooth Nzewi, Adam Szymczyk...

Chuck Roth; Mark Cauvin; Keiko Higuchi; Aude Rabillon & Erell Latimier; Pauline Weidmann; Jean-Claude Éloy (1938–2025)...

Between science fiction, popular science, art history and visual theory, Le Verdissement des Alpes (Greening of the Alps) examines current and future changes in Alpine environments in relation to global warming and the biodiversity crisis.

Art in the digital age.

The artist's travel journal.

Three essays in which philosopher Étienne Balibar questions the notion of war through the thinking of Simone Weil, Carl von Clausewitz, and Karl Marx, as well as the current geopolitical situation and the war in Ukraine.

This first monograph devoted to Claire Colin-Collin’s painting traces her artistic development since the late 1990s.

This artist's book for insiders brings together a selection of Polaroids, silver gelatin photographs, and collages that are part of a series of works on eroticism that Cécilia Jauniau has been working on since 2023.

More than 150 drawings from the collection of producer and filmmaker Marin Karmitz: a selection of works by historical, modern and contemporary artists that highlights the tension between the life and death drives.