Spring/Summer 2024: Editorial notes
September 2024
For the third issue of no exits, we explore the theme of Foil. Foil evokes in us several tangential impressions, from suspicion and reflection to fragility and failure. The five contributors in this issue tackle the multiplicity of foil through its material weirdness, as well as through notions of defeat and falling out.
Foil features texts by cultural worker Arielle Acosta, scholars A.X. Ledesma and Sanjita Majumder, and curators Amina Berdin, Vittoria Martinotti, and Renée Zonn. In this issue, Arielle writes about the failures of a recent exhibition at the Musée d’Orsay in Paris; A.X.’s three-part text points at strange and found occurrences on public transportation, online, and on the streets; and Renée conjures the imagery of the foil blanket in Better Call Saul.
This issue also includes conversational pieces, exploring how things work as foil, or become foiled. Sanjita spoke to London-based artist Chen Di about her practice and semi-fictional moving image work that refracts and challenges reality and beliefs, while Amina and Vittoria talk through an exhibition they conceptualized that was ultimately canceled in 2020.
Foil is a noun, verb and adjective at once, presenting as deceivingly strong, shiny and ruinous. Within this issue, contributors share stories in contrast to these assumptions. Foil encourages both writer and reader to look beyond the surface. Like the old wives tale of the magpie and shiny object, Foil may challenge expectations.
Foil features texts by cultural worker Arielle Acosta, scholars A.X. Ledesma and Sanjita Majumder, and curators Amina Berdin, Vittoria Martinotti, and Renée Zonn. In this issue, Arielle writes about the failures of a recent exhibition at the Musée d’Orsay in Paris; A.X.’s three-part text points at strange and found occurrences on public transportation, online, and on the streets; and Renée conjures the imagery of the foil blanket in Better Call Saul.
This issue also includes conversational pieces, exploring how things work as foil, or become foiled. Sanjita spoke to London-based artist Chen Di about her practice and semi-fictional moving image work that refracts and challenges reality and beliefs, while Amina and Vittoria talk through an exhibition they conceptualized that was ultimately canceled in 2020.
Foil is a noun, verb and adjective at once, presenting as deceivingly strong, shiny and ruinous. Within this issue, contributors share stories in contrast to these assumptions. Foil encourages both writer and reader to look beyond the surface. Like the old wives tale of the magpie and shiny object, Foil may challenge expectations.
Arianna Mercado & Izzy Waite
Spring/Summer 2024
Spring/Summer 2024
