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A book emerged from the need to try to tell the story of architecture in a way quite unlike how it’s usually told, in a continuous dialogue between the anthropological gaze of Armin Linke’s photos compared with the ideation process of two public works by the Carlana Mezzalira Pentimalli architecture office.
The book documents and brings together two exhibition projects by Nina Canell and Maria Hassabi. Essays, unpublished materials and a rich set of photographic materials form the driving force behind two visual narratives that offer new keys to understanding the research of the two artists.
Can art, literature, filmmaking, and music draw out, make visible, legible, audible, or even contestable the patterns in which our lives are held? Considering the work by Stan Douglas, Harun Farocki, Ingri Fiksdal, Åke Hodell, Stefan Panhans & Andrea Winkler, Susan Philipsz, and Elizabeth Price, this publication entertains this question.
This new major monographic publication on the Ghanian artist documents the work that transformed sites and repurposed buildings in his native town of Tamale to transformative outcomes rooted into the idea of art as a tool of understanding, rebalancing, and advancement.
For life and limbs, Austrian artist and curator Anna-Sophie Berger has assembled a group of works, from Arakawa and Gins to Lyle Ashton Harris, that register the body as a habitat that can be imaginatively stretched, altered, modified, adorned, replicated or destroyed.
This two-volume catalog, curated by Andrea Bellini and the New York-based collective DIS, is the outcome of the 2021 edition of the Biennale de l’Image en Mouvement (BIM’21), presented at the Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève.
Edited by Andrea Bellini and Nora N. Khan
Texts by Basel Abbas & Ruanne Abou-Rahme, Andrea Bellini, Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley, Giacomo Castagnola, Sheila Chiamaka Chukwulozie, Cairo Clarke, Tamar Clarke-Brown, Hajra Haider Karrar, Aziz Hazara, Nasrin Himada, Interspecifics, Will Jennings, Nora N. Khan, Michael Kurtz, Lauren Lee McCarthy, Luc Meier, Margarida Mendes, Harlan Levey, Shuang Li, Alessandro Rabottini, Sahej Rahal, Francesca Recchia, Elvia Wilk
Designed by Lorenzo Mason Studio
2026, English, softcover, 24 x 29 cm, 272 pages
ISBN 979-12-80579-87-4
Curated by Nora N. Khan and Andrea Bellini, the 18th edition of the Biennale de l’Image en Mouvement 2024 (BIM’24), produced and hosted by the Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève from January 24 to May 16, 2024, is titled A Cosmic Movie Camera. This title draws inspiration from the discovery by astrophysicists of a ring of photons around a black hole, which potentially represents the visible medium through which humanity could deepen its understanding of the interior of black holes—the epitome of the unknown.
The exhibition presented works, specifically commissioned for the occasion, by Basel Abbas & Ruanne Abou-Rahme, alfatih, American Artist, Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley, Sheila Chiamaka Chukwulozie, Formafantasma, Aziz Hazara, Interspecifics, Lawrence Lek, Shuang Li, Diego Marcon, Lauren Lee McCarthy, Sahej Rahal, Jenna Sutela, Emmanuel Van der Auwera, and an exhibition display conceived by Giacomo Castagnola. The works on show explore the concepts of the invisible and the unknown, as expressed through aesthetics, the use of technology, and a wide variety of sensibilities.
The catalogue documenting the exhibition was conceived as a “binder” of the future, as indicated by the holes that run through the publication, from front to back. The book collects various types of texts relating to the artists participating in the Biennale—reviews, essays, interviews, poems, emails, and texts written for the occasion—with a view to creating a paper archive that may preserve the memory of the project in a dystopian future: inside a spaceship or in the building of the Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève, transformed in the distant future.
The visual essay that projects the works into a virtual context was designed by EPOCH, who also created the website hosting the ongoing virtual exhibition (bim24.ch). The catalogue’s combination of print and digital formats, the real and the virtual, the past and the future, conveys the conceptual core of the Biennale, which explores the inextricable intertwining of AI, digital culture, and art in the contemporary world.
Photos: Nicola Gnesi