Theme:
Ever since artists have sought to bring art and everyday life closer together and turned the “mundane” into an important material of their practice, collecting — a part of many people’s activities — has frequently been transformed into an artistic gesture. The collection of worthless objects, of diverse traces, or even concepts, has become the raw material of numerous artistic productions in which the observation and dissection of the real, inventorying and archiving play a dominant role. This issue can be seen as a cabinet of curiosities where one will discover the traces and archives of practices bordering at times on the obsessive.

Including the portfolios of Francis Alÿs, Dean Baldwin, Rebecca Duclos & David K. Ross and Josée Pedneault.

Articles:
A review of the second Biennale de Rennes, Ce qui vient, and an essay on the exhibition From De Pierneef to Gugulective, presented at the Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town.

Artists:
Jane Alexander, Francis Alÿs, Araki Nobuyoshi, Dean Baldwin, Barking Dogs United, Iain Baxter&, Mark Boulos, Marie-Claude Bouthillier, Sylvie Cotton, Clôde Coulpier, Michel de Broin, Raphaëlle de Groot, Denicolai & Provoost, documentation céline duval, Rebecca Duclos & David K. Ross, Geribara 5, Angela Grauerholz, George Hallett, Imai Norio, La trocambulante, Claude Lévêque, Ken Lum, Basim Magdy, Ohara Ken, Daniel Olson, Josée Pedneault, Mathieu Pernot, Marc-Antoine K. Phaneuf, Julien Prévieux, Walid Raad, Michael Riedel , Sawada Tomoko, Jurgen Schadeberg, Mary Sibande, Akiko & Masako Takada, Althea Thauberger, Emily Vey Duke & Cooper Battersby.