PREORDER Fall Winter 2024: The CITIZEN ISSUE
PREORDER Fall Winter 2024: The CITIZEN ISSUE
Autre's F/W 24 CITIZEN ISSUE is a powerful 500+ page blueprint of democratic action, ideas, and dreams. In the midst of the most politicized election year in modern history—spanning 64 countries and 49% of the world’s population—we turn to artists to explore what it means to be a citizen in the 21st century. This issue traverses the globe, from the Ecuadorian Amazon to Tokyo, Senegal, Sudan, Morocco, Paris, Ukraine, Romania, Morocco, and beyond.
South Sudanese top model and humanitarian Aweng Chuol discusses her upbringing in a Kenyan refugee camp after escaping a brutal civil war in Sudan where he father was once a child soldier. Moroccan artist Meriem Bennani and collaborator Orian Barki talk to Estelle Hoy about their major upcoming exhibition at Fondazione Prada that explores the sociopolitical intricacies of human migration. Curator and writer Hilton Als talks to Bill Powers about the Queer New York art world in Alice Neel's paintings. Lola & Pani photograph an Issey Miyake special with an all Japanese cast in the residential district of Nakameguro in Tokyo. Contemporary classical music composer Max Richter discusses his new album In A Landscape and residency in Oxfordshire with Hans Ulrich Obrist with photographs by Kuba Ryniewicz. West Coast hip hop legend YG (Young Gangsta) discusses community activism. And Nick Sethi shoots a 100+ page bonus supplement supported by Stone Island that features new season and archive items with new images and photographs from Sethi's vast archive from the years of 2018 to 2024, captured in New York, California, England, Thailand, India, Indonesia, Madagascar, the Cayman Islands, and Jamaica (the supplement come free with each issue).
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This issue also includes a case of study of democratic action with portraits by Wolfgang Tillmans and photographers from Paris, Porto, Berlin, and Cologne for his “Vote Together” European Election Campaign. A 24 page dialogue between Pussy Riot founder Nadya Tolokonnikova and German artist Anne Imhof. Broad curator Sarah Loyer and Joseph Beuys scholar Andrea Gyorody discuss Beuys’s political and environmental action through art. Bobbi Salvör Menuez and Quori Thedor of radical Queer cooking collective Spiral Theory Test Kitchen discuss their wedding with portraits by Michael Bailey-Gates. Janelle Zara interviews Josh Kline about his work that explores a future world in the midst of a climate crisis. Attorney Steven Donziger discusses his landmark case against oil giant Chevron on behalf of Indigenous Ecuadoreans. Noah Dillon on his trail cameras that have captured millions of images of Los Angeles citizens. Mai-Thu Perret on her socially implicated sculpture. Japanese artist Yukinori Yanagi on wandering a permanent station and ants as a medium and metaphor for human society. Cooper Jacoby on AI and the future of human survival.
We also dive into the archives of cult Berlin-based fashion label GmbH with an interview of its founders Benjamin Alexander Huseby and Serhat Işık, and photographs by Fee-Gloria Grönemeyer in restricted access German government offices. Chimera Mohammadi writes an essay about the Lavender Scare in 1950s Florida. A chapter of An-My Lê’s poignant series Silent General, which explores the US/Mexico border with emotional remove. Riska Seval visits Eric Davis in San Francisco to explore the roots of the new tech and psychedelic revolution. And "Kendrick" Ammar Yassir shares images from the new civil war in Sudan that has resulted in untold violence.
And Julie Ragolia curates a fashion well that celebrates style with zero fashion credits: international model Dara Guyere visits his homeland of Senegal for a vibrant photographic essay, Daniel Jack Lyons documents the displaced youth of Ukraine, Katsu Naito chases childhood memories in Japan, and Patrick Bienert captures the Kalderash, a subgroup of the Romani people.
Size 9.65 x 11.85 inches. Offset Printing by KOPA (Lithuania).
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