This richly illustrated book considers the dazzling oeuvre of choreographer and dancer Marlene Monteiro Freitas. In line with her creative methodology, Alexandra Balona unfolds an “atlas of affects” through five emblematic dance pieces that reveal the intensity, humor, and humanity of one of today’s most radical choreographic voices.
Invited to present an exhibition at the Galleria Borghese in Rome, Kenyan-American artist Wangechi Mutu has developed an innovative approach to museum space, challenging hierarchy, permanence, and fixed meanings. With in-depth essays and a rich selection of illustrations, this catalog retraces that exhibition and explores the themes and concerns that have long characterized the artist’s practice.
Invitata a concepire una mostra alla Galleria Borghese, l’artista keniota-americana Wangechi Mutu ha sviluppato un approccio innovativo allo spazio museale, confrontandosi con le gerarchie, la permanenze e le sedimentazioni del contesto. Attraverso saggi approfonditi e una ricca selezione di illustrazioni, questo catalogo ripercorre la mostra ed esplora i temi e le preoccupazioni che da tempo caratterizzano la pratica dell’artista.
A visual notebook of the screenshots taken by Yngve Holen over the past five years or so, 6G—the anticipated next phase of network technology—is a peculiarly sized artist’s book, a glossy non-linear agglomeration that reflects the intersections of production, life, and digital debris.
Conceived as a visual résumé, the book provides a comprehensive overview of Posenenske’s solo exhibitions and a record of her numerous group shows. Featuring an essay by curator Erlend Hammer on the role of documentary photographs in the circulation of works of art, it was published in conjunction with the eponymous show at the Haugar Art Museum in Tønsberg.
Edited by Julia Marchand, in collaboration with Vittoria Morpurgo
Texts by Morgan Labar, Julia Marchand, Julie Ackermann, Anya Harrison, Giulia Mariachiara Galiano and Cecilia Larese, Vittoria Morpurgo and Robin Plus, Gaia Vincensini, Raphaëlle Serre, Linda Voorwinde, Tohé Commaret, Louise Nicolas de Lamballerie, Caroline Poggi, Jonathan Vinel, Kevin Blinderman, Mohamed Bourouissa, Michal Novotný, Laura Owens, Magda Szpecht, Thomas Liu Le Lann, Velvet Aubry, Arnaud Dezoteux, Prune Phi, Alban Diaz, Ant łakomsk, Liselor Perez, Francesca Grilli, Camille Aleña, Joanna Kordjak, Katarzyna Kołodziej-Podsiadło
Designed by Lorenzo Mason Studio
2026, English, softcover, 11 x 18.5 cm, 160 pages
ISBN 979-12-80579-89-8
Why be the object when you can dive into yourself and archive your own adolescence? And what about this adolescence when it lasts until the late thirties, and expands beyond the traditional understanding of age group?
This volume redefines the coming-of-age genre by addressing the contours of the obsession with the prolonged teenager years. Contemporary art views adolescence as a mental state, a condition that has eroded the traditional markers of the passage into adulthood; not a transitory phase but a prolonged mode of being or even a critique of a world that itself refuses to stabilize.
Extramentale, a curatorial platform on teenage aesthetics, was founded by Julia Marchand, the editor of this book, which spans the period from the platform’s creation in 2016 through to its eventual closure in 2026. It gave voice to artist-adolescents and author-adolescents, mainly millennials and Gen Zers.
The essays by Julia Marchand and Julie Ackermann examine manifestations of adolescence that draw on gaming, hypersensitivity, and intermediate states of consciousness as a perceptive resource and where contradictory attitudes shape the many dimensions of today’s artists-adolescents. Anya Harrison, with her incisive critical voice, explores moral panics and literary extremity in a time when society’s fetishization of adolescence continues to generate intense debates. Giulia Mariachiara Galiano, writing from her perspective as a Venice-based curator, traces the limits and contours of the “girl online,” reflecting on digital subjectivities staged out by artists of her generation. Morgan Labar argues that adolescence as the territory of our concerns is no longer the preserve of masculine compulsions of infantile provocations; Labar, author of In Praise of Dumbness: Regression and Superficiality in the Arts Since the Late 1980s (Les Presses du réel), also signs the foreword to this anthology.
Adolescent artists of the Extramentale program and beyond contributed to this publication by sharing their words on the many dimensions of the adolescence: Robin Plus, Gaia Vincensini, Raphaëlle Serre, Linda Voorwinde, Tohé Commaret, Louise Nicolas de Lamballerie, Caroline Poggi, Jonathan Vinel, Kevin Blinderman, Mohamed Bourouissa, Michal Novotný, Laura Owens, Magda Szpecht, Thomas Liu Le Lann, Velvet Aubry, Arnaud Dezoteux, Prune Phi, Alban Diaz, Ant Łakomsk, Liselor Perez, Francesca Grilli, Camille Aleña, Joanna Kordjak, and Katarzyna Kołodziej-Podsiadło; interviewed by Venice-based researchers Cecilia Larese, Vittoria Morpurgo, and Julia Marchand.
