M—A (A Space Between) #4
270 x 310 mm, 192 pages (numbered, limited edition)
Bath, UK
Annual
First published in 2021
Editor: Joe Richards
Always beautiful, the fourth issue of this large-format photographic magazine is particularly stunning. Presenting images collected by editor Joe Richards over the past year, ‘in tutorials, in galleries, in the street,’ it brings together work by 31 artists he has spotted and collected over the past year. As he notes in his handwritten intro, ‘At a time when so much seems out of control and out of reach, what we can do is learn how to respond to our instincts, how to see the signals.’
The art flows through the pages without interruption or caption—there’s a key at the end of the issue—and as ever the design detailing changes slightly; this time an open binding and silver page edges add to the lushness of the volume.
As Richard’s intro hints, the theme this time is ‘The Signal’, and artists represented include Anselm Keifer, Joy Julius, Yoko Ono and Martin Margiela. Margiela is also interviewed in the issue, as is trend forecaster Lidewij Edelkoort and cover artist Sun Yitian.
On the Journal
At work with Joe Richards: ‘MA is an ancient term—even a philosophical state in Japan—a term that I have thought about and observed for a long time. I heard a beautiful definition from a Japanese student I knew who described it as ‘sensing the presence of someone in another room’. I thought it would be fascinating to create an ongoing visual essay meditating on this.’
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