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26 Feb Two Months
TWO MONTHS, is a book created entirely during two months in Autumn 2021, the duration of À L'OEUVRE ! residency. How can two months be encapsulated as current, passing time as well all that is being triggered and brought from the past? The human, body - the I, is inevitably at the core of this book. Jennifer's texts confuse the self with the things that surround it as she tries to figure out the consistency of her body, of the day, of two months. Based on the foundation of borrowed ideas, her texts document daily compulsions, object associated behaviours and attachments to things. Everything mixes together in obscure correspondence - bodies, phones, friends, eyes, dust, false memories. These texts pursue the making of the body on the page. Dominika’s texts speak of the visual - yet all is only words, relying on the reader to form the colours, textures and breakages of her description. They traverse times and geographies, as if being knitted or woven. Like acupuncture stimulating points they reveal thoughts, emotions and fragility. Her writing comes in waves, or like water from the gutters, not knowing where one leaves off and the other begins.
16 Dez DNA – Series
Last month’s Surprise was a fluffy, fuzzy treat for the eyes. So for November, we thought we’d change it up a bit, with a challenge for the brain courtesy of DNA – Das Neue Alphabet/The New Alphabet! More
05 Nov Amma
Amma is centered around the princess Sita and deals with the concept of ‘purity’. By no means a happy ending, the closure of The Ramayana forces us to question Rama’s behaviour and his obedience to rules set by a patriarchal society. On the other hand, Sita’s beliefs and actions are free from culture. Sita means furrow in sanskrit, she is the daughter of the Earth. [expand title="more"] The pictures composing Amma take us from the seacoast of Sri Lanka, to the city of Ayodhya to the jungle of Bihar, India. Their chromatic scale recreate a world where civilization gradually disappears to leave room to a purely metaphysical space. The Ramayana has neither end nor beginning. It represents the circle of life and therefore it will always be. A Myth of Two Souls (2013-2021) is inspired by the epic tale The Ramayana. Drawing inspiration from the imagery associated with this myth and its pervasiveness in everyday Indian life, Vasantha Yogananthan has retraced the legendary route from Nepal to India to Sri Lanka. First recorded by the Sanskrit poet Valmiki around 300 BC, The Ramayana has been continuously rewritten and reinterpreted, and continues to evolve today. Yogananthan’s series is informed by the notion of a journey in time and space and offers a modern retelling of the tale. The seventh and last chapter, Amma (‘Mother’ in Tamil language) closes the project A Myth of Two Souls, after 437 pictures published over seven books (2016-2021). [/expand]
08 Okt Exteriors
Taking the form of random journal entries over the course of seven years, Exteriors concentrates on the ephemeral encounters that take place just on the periphery of a person’s lived environment. Ernaux captures the feeling of contemporary living on the outskirts of Paris: poignantly lyrical, chaotic, and strangely alive. [expand title="more"] Exteriors is in many ways the most ecstatic of Ernaux’s books – the first in which she appears largely free of the haunting personal relationships she has written about so powerfully elsewhere, and the first in which she is able to leave the past behind her. [/expand]
16 Apr Hold Successful Meetings
Meetings allow us to bring people together to inspire each other, solve problems and make a difference.[expand title="more"]Yet, we all spend too much time in dull, frustrating meetings where little is achieved and even less is followed up on afterwards. In Hold Successful Meetings, executive coach and former Google leader Caterina Kostoula will change all this. Her unique framework will: - Equip you to hold fewer, more purposeful meetings - Create a creative and inclusive environment - Leave participants inspired and ready to take action Whether virtual or in-person, people will leave your meetings inspired by the value you created together and ready to make an impact.[/expand]
15 Jul Südwall
Wild, rocky cliffs along deserted coasts, empty streets between abandoned houses captured in the break of dawn… These strangely remote places shot by Thuringian photographer Margret Hoppe show what is left of the former Südwall. The Mediterranean Coast, where once the Südwall was built by the Nazis as defense against the Allies during WWII, also gave shelter and inspiration to many German intellectuals as Thomas Mann, Lion Feuchtwanger or Berthold Brecht in exile before the atrocities of the Vichy France finally radiated into the faraway corners of Southern France. Not to forget Aldous Huxley, who wrote his dystopian novel Brave New World in Sanary-sur-Mer, a small village close to Marseille. Having all of this in mind while browsing through this artist book leaves you with a long-lasting and certainly bitter-sweet taste behind, always wondering if you may find tiny indices of what has happened here, within Hoppe’s magnificent photograph series. Buy 
08 Nov Pin-Up #27 A/W 2019
This issue also comes with a special cover. Just drop a note 'with special cover' and be one of the lucky ones to get one of the few special covers. Pin-Up's Fantasy Issue turns to the end of a decade, a decade which is reigned of a feeling of uncertainty, which leaves many in a state of outraged mental instability, online and offline. [expand title="more"]As a result many turn inward, to living their own 'truth' and escaping into alternate digital realities where fantasy lives and identities find their own audiences. To close out the decade Pin-Up dedicate this issue to the collective and creative fantasies of multiple generations of architects, artists and designers. From formal fantasies of the past to more hopeful and inclusive visions of the future, from IRL to URL and UFOs, the fantasy issue celebrates the free-for-all, devil-may-care spirit of invention and imagination.[/expand]
16 Jul San Rocco #15 Spring 2019
We ought to die at 75. It’s more than enough. We ought to be polite enough to leave the world to others. Anyhow, this is not what’s happening. In Western countries we just go on and on. We even think it’s good to live as long as possible. We never discuss our desperate refusal to die. Can it really be good for our society? Or even for us as individuals? How to think of a contemporary city where people also die? How to make architecture for mortal beings?