Tag: Humanities
Apology of a complication: I love you because you are complicated
Humans crave complexity, simplicity is boring and mystery is exciting – from love to machines, from cars to watches, we never look for what everybody can have Cover image: Tomás...
Human bodies: the illusion of inclusion
Naked, not free: what Elska Magazine reveals about racism, ageism, and exclusion in the gay community. Photographer Liam Campbell maps the world through gay men
Female self-censorship: notes on female rage
The female body is freer than ever before, yet it’s never been as monitored as now. The runway offers options, the network decides what counts
How do I like your saliva? It’s all over my tongue
From kisses to couture, fashion reclaims intimacy as cultural value: touch and human connection drive campaigns and collections from Moncler to Prada, Dior, and Rick Owens
We Are All Intellectuals Now: The Condom as Artistic Fetish
From Olympic distribution and public health campaigns to museum collections and fashion collaborations, condoms are the epitome of a recurring provocation
Hot & Sporty, the uniform makers: Ralph Lauren and the Olympic Journey
After ten Olympic Games, Ralph Lauren combines design and Made-in-USA production to release a relaxed Team USA wardrobe that recalls countless sporty hotties
Do you still want gossip? We talk about stainless steel cigarette holders
A wall fitted with steel holders marks out a small sanctuary for gossip: Chisme Corner by Ananas Ananas shows how durable materials can contain forms of speech
Arrested for a photoshoot – Russia’s cage system
The State does not stop at punishment – it enters the body, lets it bleed, suffocate and deteriorate without care or urgency. Detention, feminist art and the cage of Putin’s Russia
What does the RCTA term mean on TikTok?
RCTA (Race Change To Another) is both a popular term and a trend that has gone viral on social media platforms, like TikTok. What does RCTA mean?
The slow logic of hospitality: art, identity, and the contemporary Grand Tour
In the Tridente district, contemporary artworks spread across corridors, ceilings, and rooms — part of a hospitality project rooted in Basilicata and embedded in the living texture of central Rome
Balkan Aesthetics: the last frontier of authenticity?
From contemporary art and social media to bunker bars and stucco columns, Balkan aesthetics offer an antidote to globalized smoothness: Alterazioni Video’s Olbania and Šejla Kamerić’s Bosnian Girl
India’s colonial legacy: a journey through Udaipur, Jaipur and the echoes of the British Raj
India confronts its colonial past in the contradictions of everyday life, where economic gaps and uneven infrastructures echo policies of extraction that continue to influence development across cities and regions
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
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
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
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...
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...
Cultura giapponese e occidentale a confronto: individualismo contro collettivismo?
Come Giappone e Occidente affrontano la crisi climatica, valorizzano l’artigianato e ridefiniscono il rapporto tra individuo e comunità
Humans can learn from the cooperative system of bees
3. Photographer Maurizio Annese visits Cascina Linterno in Milan to explore the dynamics and hierarchies among bees. In his shots, the investigation of a complex social structure becomes inspiration
Jack Johnstone: the Bauhaus school between esotericism and mathematical rigor
Inspired by the German school of design, Bauhaus, British photographer Jack Johnstone brings back the human body as a constitutive element of theater and performance
Who’s afraid of the father? Camille Lévêque rewrites paternal mythologies
Through collage, family archives, advertising images, and political propaganda, photographer Camille Lévêque dismantles the traditional father figure, exposing patriarchal myths in À la recherche du père
What Braids Mean Across Time? Heritage, Resistance, and Reinvention
From ancestral codes to fashion runways, braids stand as cultural language and visual archive, linking heritage with reinvention
Durk Dehner – Sex between men is just plain manly, no matter what position one takes
Durk Dehner of Tom of Finland Foundation dissects one of the many elements that define the queer as a community and a tribe, the roots of the sexual attraction the...
A Sixties villa show the rough character of Atlantic France
Far from the clichés of the Côte d’Azur, a house becomes a stage for reinvention. In the windswept Basque town of Saint-Jean-de-Luz, Marie Schuller captures her mother in her house
Florence: from cultural heritage to an open-air stage of fakes
Photographer Louis De Belle investigates how mass tourism, obsessive visual reproduction, and urban trompe-l’œil strategies have contributed to a distorted identity of Florence
The Tunisian Shepherd – learning to dismiss the luxury of waste
Photographer Akila Berjaoui and Clément LaGuardia uncovered the quiet resilience of Tunisia’s shepherds — revealing a raw portrait of ancestral living, slow fashion
Daniel Roché: sex work and political performance
How the realities of sex work, political performance, digital self-surveillance and aesthetic anxiety expose the contradictions at the heart of contemporary identity
Under Suspended Rupture: Community and Isolation Beneath LaGuardia
David Rothenberg’s long-term visual study of Landing Lights Park exposes how the proximity of landing planes shapes the lived experience of East Elmhurst—where infrastructure divides bodies and communities
Home Fetish: a Visual Exploration of Obsession, Comfort, and Domestic Rituals
Through the lens of Lorenzo Venturini: Home Fetish unveils the ambiguous relationship between the self and domestic space, where comfort becomes obsession and everyday objects turn into fetishes
Twenty years of women’s art revealing the fractures of our time
From trauma to care, absence to collective memory: The Max Mara Art Prize for Women as a space of production, reflection, and resistance in European contemporary art history
Is being homosexual less polluting than being heterosexual?
A provocation for Pride Month. Human activity pollutes, and bringing children into the world makes things worse: will same-sex couples be the saviours of the Anthropocene?
Black Cowboys, Banlieues, and Beyond: Twenty Years of Mohamed Bourouissa
From Paris suburbs to Philadelphia stables, Mohamed Bourouissa interrogates the politics of representation and community in urban peripheries across twenty years of projects
Lucille Durez: Statues, Bodies, and the Politics of Visibility – Why Monumentality Still Matters
The power of statues lies in their resemblance to us. Any human body could be cast in stone or bronze. Yet, as Judith Butler reminds us, for a body to...
Cross Cultural Chairs: The Chair as a Form of Identity and Belonging in the World
Matteo Guarnaccia’s project challenges the global standardization of chair design: postures, materials, and practices shared between artisans, designers, and local communities
Mathis Chevalier – leave it to an MMA fighter to destroy toxic masculinity
As a teenager, Mathis Chevalier had trouble fitting into the school system. MMA helped him with his anger and frustration, until he decided it was time to deconstruct machismo
Intertwined: Spyros Rennt baring an evolving vision of intimacy and selfhood
The archiving of softness, Spyros Rennt continues his documentary work, showing a side of queer subculture we haven’t seen from his lens before in his new self-published photobook, Intertwined
Robin de Puy, beyond the Stereotype: A Dutch Photographer’s Journey Across the States
“I was frustrated with the way Americans are seen from the outside, especially from a European point of view.” Americans emerge as complex individuals with hopes, dreams, fears, and a capacity...
Deb Koo’s still life paintings pay homage to the fleeting moments that mold our lives
Saturated tones and pastel palettes intertwine in Deb Koo’s oil paintings portraying mundane moments, personal experiences and memories from her childhood
A Storm in Grandma’s Tea Set: Amit Berman on roughness and nostalgia
«Roughness has been present in my work since the beginning; as a self-taught artist, I used to paint naively, working with what I had and expressing myself in raw ways»...
Huasco Valley: Villages and Communities Abandoned at the Edge of Chile’s Desert
Photographer Cristian Ordóñez explores, through images, the last communities before the world’s largest desert capturing poverty, pollution, and lack of access to essential services in what is called the “Garden...
Jonathan Bazzi: Milano, l’emergenza abitativa e la scomparsa dei luoghi di aggregazione
Jonathan Bazzi: i temi sociali della periferia e della malattia, l’esperienza da sieropositivo e lo scarto di un attivismo politico: «So cosa dovrei fare per essere virale ma non mi...
Ukraine, Georgia Slovakia and post-soviet heritage
Ukraine, Georgia Slovakia. Three different countries, at three different stages in the relationship with Russia. Ukraine, Georgia Slovakia: War, Protest, and Dissent
Bre Andy: Documenting Black and Brown Women Through Figurative Oil Painting in Brooklyn
Inspired by the writings of Angela Davis, Bre Andy seeks to understand the struggles of black women who came before her, specifically in the context of black women in America
Loving Raw, Playing Rough: No Romanticism on San Valentine’s Day
What does it mean Playing Rough? Intensity, power, and risk in sexual desire on San Valentine’s Day – from ancient Rome’s brothels to digital pornography and algorithm-driven hookups
Amore ruvido: niente romanticismo a San Valentino
Il fascino del proibito, la seduzione del rischio, il potere – dai lupanari di Pompei ai bordelli del Diciottesimo secolo, fino alla digitalizzazione del sesso attraverso OnlyFans e il porno algoritmico
My father went into the woods, with the intention of never coming back
Now is not the right time – a Photo Book Peter Pflügler: "The flying chair is the one my mother used to breastfeed me in, when all happened. It needed...
