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Happily Ever After is a richly illustrated exhibition catalogue. Featuring newly written essays by the author Nina Björk and curators Julia Björnberg and Anna Johansson, as well as presentations of the works and the artists. Happily Ever After brings together artists and artist collectives whose practices explore what happens to us as individuals and collectives in a time cast in a haze of neoliberal optimization of the self, economic and political stakes in our emotions, and an increasing contempt for weakness. Through a range of artistic expression, topics such as mindfulness, welfare state profits, the tech industry, and social media are addressed. Together, the works point to how our mode of experiencing and expressing feelings is in flux and how these changes in turn affect how we see ourselves, each other, and society. Happily Ever After invites reflection on how emotions can open up futures by emphasizing the importance of resistance in the form of authenticity and community,

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Benoît Piéron: Slumber Party is the first book by the French artist, published on the occasion of his 2023 commission at Chisenhale Gallery, London. Continuing his practice of applying a vital softness to the hard spaces of the hospital, this new publication is inspired in both form and content by waiting room magazines as a site of intervention and diversion. Installation views accompany a visual essay by Piéron documenting the processes behind the commission. A series of activities have been devised by artists ClayAD, Paul Maheke, Roxanne Maillet and Piéron. Each invites the reader to either draw on or rip out pages to help pass the time; making and remaking the book anew for each reader. The book considers how to transform the often stale or distressing atmosphere of a medical waiting room with a sense of possibility and renewed imagination. These activities are accompanied by texts from Chisenhale Gallery's Director Zoé Whitley, the exhibition's curator Oliva Aherne, and ClayAD

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Lisa Tan: Dodge and/or Burn is conceived as a continuation of the artist's eponymous solo exhibition at Accelerator gallery, Stockholm. Inspired by a drawing made by the famous neurologist Oliver Sacks representing the physiological organization of migraines, Tan created a system of open walls for viewers to navigate. Her attention to the intersection between the nervous system and interior life as a way of examining how art operates, uncertainty, and the formation of the self is deepened in the publication thanks to the essays of three authors whose work has affected Tan's thinking. Psychoanalyst Charlotta Björklind and artist Asier Mendizabal analyze the overlapping of inner and outer life, the misalignment of subjective experience from representations of it, and negotiations between mind and brain, while the narration of writer Haytham el-Wardany meditates on the breath between words. Throughout the book, at the top of the pages, runs a transcription of the voice-over monologue

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Textile Textures: Multithreaded Narratives is a collective volume edited by Marta Kowalewska, an outcome of the international project Interweaving Structures: Fabric as Material, Method and Message organized jointly by the Central Museum of Textiles in Lódz, the Faculty of Fine Arts, Music and Design at the University of Bergen, and the Doctoral School of the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow. The book's uniqueness lies in its multi-aspect treatment of the medium of textile, regarded from the perspectives of art, history, anthropology, technology, politics, post-colonialism, museology, curatorship, and fashion, as well as from personal points of view taking shape amidst questions on identity, tradition, craft, collaboration and kinships with architecture, design, and industry. Individual themes are examined in relation to the issue of textile being a tangible medium of memory and a unique language which, by virtue of its nature, interweaves a variety of different themes.

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