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A haunting music film exploring the realm of myth and melancholia with interwoven saxophone, bass clarinet and cello melodies.

Casey’s pictures vibrate between abstraction and figure, never fully resolving into either. They seem more honest for that, an artist who doesn’t purport to have the answers, choosing instead to be open to the possibility that there are none.

“Always try to maintain an open mind and look for the beauty in things”

The realism in Shannon Cartier Lucy’s paintings makes them seem immediately knowable, but their strangeness makes that knowledge impossible.

“When I love something, I do all the research.”

Curchod’s rhythmic universe is wrought with multiplicitous energies, all of which remain tethered to a belief system that situates drawing as the supreme modality.

Love Letters: Some of our favourite writers write on one of their favourite writers. Originally published in Issue 21. I met Max Steele in a super smoky dorm room one night at Sarah Lawrence, it was 2003. I know it was sometime in the far…

Love Letters: Some of our favourite writers write on one of their favourite writers. Originally published in Issue 21. Albertine Sarrazin met her future husband while they were both locked up in Amiens Prison; Albertine and Julien were separated by the gendered wings of the…

Love Letters: Some of our favourite writers write on one of their favourite writers. Originally published in Issue 21. In 1946, shortly after WW2, at the age of 27, actress and writer Colette Thomas met Antonin Artaud when she went with her husband, French poet…

Love Letters: Some of our favourite writers write on one of their favourite writers. Originally published in Issue 21. To explain what Bhanu Kapil’s work means to me is like explaining why one should not attempt to cut out their own heart. I am incredibly…

Petal, Fortress, Blood and Evening Star, a duo exhibition by Olga Abeleva and Andrea Lukic, draws inspiration from Gabriel García Márquez’s novel One Hundred Years of Solitude. The exhibition explores themes of linguistic decay, historical amnesia, and the haunting persistence of myth.

Street Flash #2 is the second iteration of London photographer Will Wright’s foray into zine-making and street style archiving.

Baird strips the art to its marrow to harness its most primitive, natural components.

Royer’s work is high concept but never terribly serious— lots of clowning around, true to character.

We see past fluffy clouds, blue sky, skinny strip of land. Our minds work with models of reality, not reality itself, Roest argues.

Rebecca Storm’s paintings are like intrusive thoughts. The word “limerence” comes to mind. Love as a psychic intruder, dedication not without dolor.