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This section brings together interviews, reviews, and photography from the print edition, offering a direct view of contemporary culture and creative practices. Each piece reflects the magazine’s approach: sharp, critical, and without unnecessary embellishment. Readers explore conversations with artists, designers, and thinkers, visual narratives through editorial photography, and reviews that examine books, exhibitions, and projects. Magazine documents the work behind ideas and productions, connecting content from paper to digital. It’s not a showcase – it’s a place to observe, question, and understand how culture is produced and experienced, through the lens of Lampoon’s editorial vision.

Blockchain
Vignesh Sundaresan: from collecting digital art to building its infrastructure
With Your view matter by Olafur Eliasson, Vignesh Sundaresan introduces Padimai Art & Tech Studio, a space that commissions artworks and preserves viewer trajectories using a lightweight blockchain system
The Art Field
New York, no filter, Daniel Arnold after Instagram: You Are What You Do
Over the last two decades, American photographer Daniel Arnold has recorded moments of humanity on New York streets. His new book: You Are What You Do 
Naturally Sourced
Mold: from spores to plastic, the intelligence of decay
Plastic – our most unnatural artifact – is no longer immune to the appetite of life: experimental microbial consortia are being developed that combine bacteria and fungi to attack complex plastic composites in concert
Fashion
The rhythm of the body. How Tidjane Tall shifts posture
Shaping presence through movement, Tidjane Tall builds garments that carry a sense of balance — between body, material, and intention
Humanities
Neue Welle: Berlin’s post-punk legacy and a new generation
A small group of musicians and drifters in Berlin rewires post-punk style: Marina Mónaco turns VHS nights and shared bedrooms into a raw map of the city
High Jewelry
Adrien Dubost for Lampoon 32 – SOAP: Cartier in a bubble bath
Adrien Dubost takes the Maison’s jewelry out of the velvet box and straight into the sink. The pieces float through water, foam, fabric, blueberries, and a few accidents that look suspiciously like breakfast Dubost turns the usual Cartier mise-en-scène upside down for Lampoon 32 SOAP Cartier, but make it slippery. For Lampoon 32 – SOAP, […]
Naturally Sourced
Satinine’s rebirth: a Milanese fragrance legend returns to claim its future
A conversation with Andrea Galletti on reviving Satinine: from chromatographic decoding of 1930s formulas to rebuilding Art déco design codes and a fully Italian supply chain for true in-house perfumery
Literature
The truth about modern adulthood: rootlessness and global drift
Into Ayşegül Savaş’s new novel, The Anthropologists – unnamed cities, rituals, and a life lived between languages reveal the architecture of modern adulthood and global displacement
The Art Field
Mary Kelly: seventy years of global conflict through domestic life
On show at Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, Mary Kelly uses dryer lint, letters, and press fragments to trace how decades of global conflict leave their mark on the ordinary aspects of domestic life
Photography
Farewell to Martin Parr, icon of documentary color photography and observer of ordinary life
From selfies to rising seas: revisiting our interview with the late Martin Parr and his sharp, affectionate eye on people, places and a changing planet
Fashion
Timothy Schaumburg — Breaking Vuitton in the Caribbean
Shot across the sunburnt calm of Palm Heights in the Cayman Islands, Timothy Schaumburg’s LV special L32 for Lampoon 32 – SOAP blends raw island edges, sharp light, and an offbeat tension
The Art Field
Amanda Wall turns to the bed—not for rest, but for resistance
In an era where everything digital dissolves into vapour, Amanda Wall insists on stains, scars, and brushstrokes that mark time and presence—We're leaving the rug, this is our life
High Jewelry
Shall your fantasy be dismissed by some artificial intelligence?
The exhibition Cartier & Myths in Rome forces us back to the place where fantasy is born – the realm of myth – with a challenging question: will we remain stronger than an algorithm, or will it overpower us? Louis Cartier and a journey through Italy: can imagination ever be defeated? Traveling across the known […]
Humanities
How to Peel yourself: the ritual of shedding and becoming
In Osman Özel’s visual narrative for Lampoon SOAP, the act of cleansing becomes an intimate choreography of transformation – a meditation on identity, purity, and the art of unveiling oneself
The Art Field
Juergen Teller shapes Onassis Ready into a living exhibition: You are invited
Juergen Teller arrives in Athens not in a white cube: You are invited explores intimacy, archival work and new series within the unpolished framework of Onassis Ready, a former factory turned into a new spaceJuergen Teller arrives in Athens not in a white cube: You are invited explores intimacy, archival work and new series within the unpolished framework of Onassis Ready, a former factory turned into a new space
Sex
The Bi culture: does bisexuality exist?
From Seventies bisexual activism to the erasure of those living outside straight and homo definitions – Pillion, Euphoria and other movies and TV series explore how visibility can question fixed notions of desire
Fashion
Silence is Couture: Renaud Cambuzat turns Chanel Cruise into still cinema
A reflection on light and absence, Renaud Cambuzat’s contribution to Lampoon 32 SOAP investigates the language of stillness through a cinematic eye
Cinema
Alex Lawther on “Alien: Earth” – Cult teen sociopaths and the softness of survival
From Black Mirror to The End of the F**ing World and now Alien: Earth, Alex Lawther reflects on fear, AI, and playing care in a militarized future
Humanities
The scars of industry in Lausitz, Brandenburg: Maximilian Semlinger
Lampoon SOAP: photographer Maximilian Semlinger documenting a post-industrial landscape marked by coal mining
Reportage
Ash, Water, Plastic: Ritual and Reality Along the Ganges
From the divine descent through Shiva’s hair to the industrial discharge of modern cities, the Ganges tells a story of devotion and ecological crisis – between purification rituals and chemical waste
Call To Action
The Politics of Oil: Tanoa Sasraku Reframes Corporate Souvenirs as Violent Symbols
Working with found objects, sculptures, and UV-printed paper works, Tanoa Sasraku maps the destruction of the oil industry across global affairs and the environment
Naturally Sourced
The world’s first regenerative cotton grown under agroforestry
A globally relevant case study: supported by the Armani Group, a pioneering protocol for regenerative cotton grown through agroforestry is moving forward – while the first 1,000 T-shirts reach store shelves
Call To Action
Bergen, one of Europe’s rainiest cities: an offering to the sea
In Norway’s rain-soaked city, Bergen Assembly 2025 invites audiences to listen to the rain, the sea, and the more-than-human world as active collaborators in the creation of art and meaning
Humanities
Charlotte Taylor: drawing the balance between fiction and structure
Between the digital and the built, Charlotte Taylor moves through worlds that mirror and inform each other — where light, weight, and narrative define how we inhabit space
The Art Field
Perfection Kills the Person: Inside Hart Lëshkina’s Boy World Effigy II
In the multichannel installation at O–Overgaden, a historic Danish boys’ choir becomes a living metaphor for modern control. Boy World Effigy II by Hart Lëshkina dissects harmony, and the death of individuality 
Fashion
Carly Scott SOAP, automatic purity: a car wash is about your life
The first car wash was born from the belief that purity could be engineered – for Lampoon / SOAP, Carly Scott turns the industrial car wash into a confessional of desire From Detroit to Desire: the first car wash opened its doors in Detroit in 1914 When the first car wash opened its doors in […]
Sex
We all want more sex! Independent publishing and emerging fashion 
From Butt Magazine to Carne Bollente and Ludovic de Saint Sernin, independent publishing and niche fashion labels transform sex from spectacle into intimacy – shifting from glossy provocation to everyday openness
Fashion
The difference between fashion and style – and the measure of Armani
The Giorgio Armani company: 50 years of activity and operation – style, fashion and measure, pioneering sustainability, message, and Milan’s rough architects
The Art Field
Mircea Cantor and the Aleppo Soap – from destruction to the UNESCO list
The destruction suffered by Aleppo, migrations, bombings, and in the midst of all this Mircea Cantor discovered a humble material: Aleppo Soap, which in 2024 was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage list.
Humanities
Cara Cano: searching for a space where restraint and vitality coexist
From Korea to Paris, it’s easy to disappear into the codes of luxury — Cara Cano found her language, when she started reading more about art and understanding color and form in a deeper way
The Art Field
Anthea Hamilton: Oil makes everything slippery – soap brought the idea back to earth
Anthea Hamilton reflects on the role of tactility in her installations, from quail eggs and bondage rope to plush pumpkins and perfume
Cinema
Can cinema define itself as a sustainable and inclusive industry?
Inside the film industry’s green awakening: from solar-powered sets and recycled costumes to mentoring programs like Women in Film & TV and the BFI diversity standards
Architecture
Hygiene and the fracture of modernist architecture, Ignazio Gardella never designed through purity
Dispensario Antitubbercolare: Ignazio Gardella responded to political and hygienic pressures with calibrated disobedience, embedding spatial misalignments into a structure born of regulation
Music and Performance
Dafni Krazoudi: Guilty for Lampoon SOAP
The body stands as both witness and terrain: a shoot by Dafni Krazoudi and Spyros Rennt, echoing the performance GUILTY at OHM with MOLT in Berlin, tracing an archaeology of guilt both intimate and collective
High Jewelry
Lampoon: a bar of soap cut into squares for Tiffany & Co.
Lauren Bamford transforms Tiffany’s high jewelry into works of contemporary still life – coffee stains, soap cuts, and scuffed textures surround gold and diamonds
Humanities
Alex Dobé: what’s raw and unposed? We have to be pickier and more precise 
Photographer Alex Dobé’ captures what’s raw and unposed – in Paris, he stands out: There are a lot of avant-garde brands, but I’m not sure anyone is reshaping fashion on a large scale today 
Humanities
The meaning of lingerie in shaping female identity
From tights and bras to swimsuits and closets: lingerie as a lens to understand female identity, memory, whiteness, and the rituals passed down through generations. A performance by Charlotte Fourneuf-Niel
The Art Field
Maurizio Cattelan: Art is not a detergent. It doesn’t clean, it stains
An interview with Maurizio Cattelan: art shouldn’t wash anything away. I don’t want people leaving reassured or clutching a moral. If something sticks, let it be friction
The Art Field
Inside Mater, the Peruvian center blending ancestral knowledge and science
In Peru’s Sacred Valley, Mater studies native species and climate data to preserve ancestral agricultural knowledge. Photographer Gaia Anselmi Tamburini translates this research into a visual record
Humanities
The Architecture of the Body: Lampoon SOAP
A cinematic approach, documentary and fiction, photographer Naguel Rivero transforms fashion imagery into a meditation on form and distance –Lampoon SOAP
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