Lampoon 32 – SOAP Digital Edition

/ Lampoon 32 – SOAP: We Like It Soapy and Dirty

SOAP is a journey through stains, purity, and contradiction – a visual and textual exploration that stretches from microplastics in oceans to blood on our hands. Soap as the act of cleansing, but also as metaphor: of moral stains, of humanity’s endless cycle of defeat and renewal. Soap is never just soap. It washes, it heals, it purifies – but it also reveals.

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/ Features in Photography and Art

From snail trails in Vienna to hemp-based soaps in Madrid, the stained issue explores dirt, purity, and contradiction. We talk about biotechnological futures of microplastic digestion, Ignazio Gardella’s asylum, and Mircea Cantor’s carved Aleppo soaps. Sofia Alazraki’s raw still-lifes, Naguel Rivero’s stripped fashion, and Rid Burman’s Ganges photography. Conversations with François Berthoud, Olivier Zahm, Alex Lawther, Maurizio Cattelan, and Andrea Rinaldo. Essays on stains, scars, saints, and exclusion and a tribute to the Giorgio Armani Archive which blends with AI.

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/ 6 cover versions
/ 432 pages
/ softcover
/ 2,2 kg
/ 24×32 cm
/ english