Mexico City is the new Berlin. A few years ago I heard someone announce it. All the kids who show at Berlin galleries show here too. All the same techno DJs play. I’m pretty convinced the world doesn’t need any more artists.

PUBLISHED IN ISSUE 18 INTERVIEW BY BROOK HSU Brook​ ​Hsu Psyche​ ​1​,​  Oil​ ​on​ ​panel, 8​ ​x​ ​6​ ​in. I took a trip to Chinatown so that I could find some dried wood ear mushrooms. They came in a funny little box, like the kind a toy prize might be stuffed into. I brought the…

The Mould Map gang’s all here, coming out for Parker Ito’s stunning exhibition-companion book P. This is an art-book made by many hands, and it makes sense for Ito: the LA artist is known for challenging authorship and troubling art world sticklers, like when he employed high-paid art assistants to produce his work. By commissioning portraits of himself from Mould Maps’ rat pack Leon Sadler, Jonny Negron, Maren Karlson and others, Ito obscures himself while enshrining himself.  

Brook Hsu’s art practice bears witness as well as offers invitation. Infinitely lying on forest floor in a blackout. Learning to breathe underwater. The smell of fresh soil. A wound healing slowly.

PUBLISHED IN ISSUE 18 WRITTEN BY JULIA KENNEDY   I rejoice in solitude when the house is quiet and no one might disturb the comings and goings of my rituals. Right now, I sit perched here in my kitchen, alone, for the moment blissful. I can hear Alice Coltrane, Roxy Music Avalon, two angelic cats…

QUARRIED MARBLE, 2018, foam, plaster, acrylic, wood Images Courtesy of MKG127 Enter a gallery room containing paintings of pictures, decoratively hung, warmly lit. The first work before us is not a painting of a space or the objects within it, but is a representational painting of the 72nd page of a 20th Century interior design…

Ambera Wellmann is lamenting energy vampires—the most highly evolved stage of a failed painting. But failure in this context feels rather oxymoronic floating so near to Wellmann’s visual oeuvre. Born and raised on the East Coast of Canada, Wellmann now operates out of Berlin. Her most recent work, which explores the mythology of porcelain, features moody, amorphous globs—the jelly-like ooze of a tadpole on the precipice of hatching.

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“The sky above the port was the colour of television, tuned to a dead channel.” – William Gibson, Neuromancer Native Cruise’s Sunsets & Deeper Moods marks the first release on a new tape series from London label No Bad Days. The Northern English producer made a wave with his summer hit “Calypso Spring,” returning with this moodier,…

Animals are always the observed. The fact that they can observe us has lost all significance. They are the objects of our ever-extending knowledge. What we know about them is an index of our power.

Sledsens’ work in Two Trees, currently on view at Tim Van Laere Gallery, is strong, vivid, and humorous.

Is It Wrong to be Wrong: Kirin J Callinan shot in Australia by Mia Rankin & Kurt Johnson

Each object and surface selected by Debora Delmar designates power and class. The fact that Delmar’s chosen signifiers seem quaint and playfully retro shows that as a society we’ve gotten good at concealing our capitalism

Claire Christerson channels teenage energy, with emo-aesthetic drawings and diary-style scribbles in “Night Shade,” her latest exhibition at Little Sister Gallery

PUBLISHED IN ISSUE 18 Creative Direction & Interview by Jessica Canje Photos by Bernice Mulenga Styling by Sharkkana Pryce Hair + Makeup: Mata Labs Dearly beloved Editorial Magazine readers, we would like to introduce you to Klein. But how? The South London singer and producer is difficult to place because she encompasses such a whirlwind…