Crash #104
277 x 400 mm, 134 pages
Paris, France (English-language)
Biannual
Editor in chief and creative director: Armelle Leturcq
What began in the 1990s as a radical art magazine out of France, has since become the revered art, biannual publication Crash. The goal was to break down the boundaries of the art world, championing non-career artists and personalities with no agenda other than to breach reality.
The latest edition is ‘The Art Issue’, a (happily) accidental homage to women artists. Featuring a tribute to director and astute chronicler of the female lived experience, Chantal Akerman, an ‘acrobatic fashion story’ photographed by Isabelle Wenzel, taking as her inspiration the theatrical choreography of Pina Bausch, and an interview with wearer-of-many-hats, ‘artist shaman’ Myriam Mihindou.
“I love the sensation of building issues sometimes without an imposed theme, only to discover in the end a certain coherence, as if a secret dialogue were taking place between spirits meeting within the pages of a magazine…”