Essay

A bilingual excerpt from the Russian graphic journalist’s forthcoming memoir on her hometown of Serpukhov (translated by Bela Shayevich), exploring post-Soviet space and the closure of the village’s state printing press

An artist’s index of the strange.

A new film documents the performer.

Thinking the politics of race in contemporary dance. 

Less is much more. 

The artist talks about investigating the gender spectrum and the female gaze. 

The famous poet bombs while bombing.

The artist talks about claiming noble lineages through hybridized portrait paintings. 

A feral, hyper-human female figure.

Giving melanin a life of its own.

The artist talks about an uninhabitable American Dream.

The poetics of the microdose.

Painting as disappearance.

A mural’s ode to labor and migration.

The artists talk about the desire for blonde.

Examining the politics of representation. 

With Nigella Sativa, we arrive at midnight together, to the intimacy that can come from mass hysteria.