Drawing on Sianne Ngai’s Theory of The Gimmick: Aesthetic Judgment and Capitalist Form (2020), this essay examines the reception of fashion collective Vetements through the lens of the gimmick, discussing the label’s…
In recent years, numerous initiatives have called for better remuneration for artists. The success of these campaigns is a testament to a salutary change in the status of the artist. For too…
During her studies, Eva Meister took on a number of student jobs as her family could not afford to support her. In her TRANS – master’s thesis, Meister, now an alumna, looked…
The meme formed with the phrase “Ok Boomer” epitomises a generation gap that has opened up in recent years. On the one hand, there are Millennials and Gen Zers looking for social…
Just as the pioneers of experimental cinema reused and distorted sequences from film footage, filmmakers are now drawing on the vast reservoir of Internet images to create new narratives. This feature looks…
“The world has already been filmed, it is now a matter of transforming it”, said Guy Debord in The Society of the Spectacle in 1973. This reservoir of images has since been…
Published in 2022 and already out of print, the book Graphic Design in the Post-Digital Age is currently being reprinted. To celebrate this upcoming return to bookstores, we are publishing an excerpt…
Louise Jarrige-Le Berre shows what is radical in tenderness – from the violence of a tenderness that is denied, to the tenderness of a protecting friendship, to that of a garment that…
How to continue producing, as an artist who belongs to a social group perceived as a minority? Behind the current openness of art institutions to so-called minorities, there are a number of…
In contemporary art, migrants are mostly represented from a dramatic angle. The denunciation of their fate once they have arrived in Europe, the risks of crossing the Sahara or the Atlantic, and…