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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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For me it is all about communicating the mystery of religious faith with a feeling. We cannot explain it and that's the beauty of believing.Alexander TovborgThe publication Alexander Tovborg: The Church. Photographed by Mishael Fapohunda, edited and designed by Åbäke, follows the artist's eponymous exhibition at Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen (2023), in which Tovborg investigated the mysteries and paradoxes of faith, as well as the power of images. Through the photographs taken by visual artist Mishael Fapohunda, the immersive and sacred atmosphere of the space, architecturally shaped on the model of a church according to Tovborg's own interpretation of Christian iconography, is vividly captured. The book includes a conversation between the artist and curator and writer Francesca Astesani, delving into the themes of spirituality, iconography, and tracing how the sacred has always played a central role in Tovborg's practice and life.

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Published to accompany an exhibition at the Nouveau Musée National de Monaco, this volume, which gathers scientific contributions from leading researchers, art historians, along with in situ installation views, pays tribute to the greatest set designer of the modern era. Viewing theater as a total artwork in which choreography, music, costumes and sets were of equal importance, Léon Bakst worked closely with artists such as Serge Diaghilev, Vaslav Nijinsky, Jean Cocteau, Isadora Duncan, Ida Rubinstein and Igor Stravinsky, transforming the perception of the ballet. Designing Dreams: A Celebration of Léon Bakst highlights Bakst's finest achievements in stage design, while also revealing his decisive influence in the field of textile design. Conceived especially by Nick Mauss, in parallel to the exhibition design, Designing Dreams presents in detail Bakst's drawings, costume and textile designs, previously unpublished writings on ornament and fashion, new scholarship on Bakst's sources an

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Falling In: Movement and Becoming in Curatorial Research, edited by Dahlia El Broul, Ksenia Kaverina, and Jussi Koitela, brings together curators from diverse locations to explore and discuss their research-related methodologies, motivations, and aims. The essays delve into the multifaceted nature of their work, addressing its performative, educational, historical, affective, bodily, activist, and communal dimensions, and highlighting how much of the research takes place beyond traditional academic circles and doesn't necessarily seek validation from institutions. Published within the context of the Frame Curatorial Research Fellowshipa four-year initiative for contemporary art curators aimed at exploring novel research approaches that challenge conventional curatorial and institutional practicesFalling In features contributions from Ama Josephine Budge, Diana Campbell, Sonia D'Alto, Léuli Eshraghi, Satu Herrala and Eva Neklyaeva, Anaïs Lepage, Miguel A. López, Nikolay Smirnov, and TOK

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Grand Illusion is a photographic series of screenshots from Google Cultural Institute's Museum View of Baroque European palacesobjects of beauty and manifestations of power whose gold encrusted ornamentation points to the colonial activities abroad that made this kind of wealth possible. While the monarchies and empires of the past used beauty as an expression of their authority, technology, in its mediation of the world, often operates without an aesthetic agenda. Throughout this series, the covert power of technology makes itself visible only through accidents such as glitches, a glimpse of the machine in the mirror, the AI blurring the faces of statuary.

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There is one kind of structure that defies the principles of both simultaneity and oscillation, and whose verticality is comparable, therefore, neither to that of the tree or the lighthouse, nor to that of the person. This is the statue. Tim IngoldSculpture is the first monograph dedicated to the work of New Yorkbased British artist Jesse Wine (b. 1983), bringing together a substantial body of work produced between 2016 and 2023. Wine's colorfully expressive sculptures investigate notions of the body and the gesture, and how they fit into and cohabit with capitalist society and the urban landscape. This richly illustrated volume includes essays by writer and editor Amy Sherlock, exploring the historical context of gestures and movements in art; by SculptureCenter deputy director Kyle Dancewicz, providing his analysis of Imperfect List, Wine's first institutional US solo exhibition; and by anthropologist Tim Ingold, delving into the materiality and symbolic meaning of clay, the artist's

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