With ‘Vital Mud’, Dutch artist Hiske Altena explores the theory that life on Earth once began in clay. In the 1980s, her uncle, now a retired geologist, found an unusual stone that rattled. Within this stone, he discovered organic-looking structures which he could not easily explain using existing geological theories. The so-called “clay hypothesis”, however, seemed to offer a better explanation. This is the basis on which Altena builds a collection of images intended to shift our per...

First and foremost, ‘Within the Bubble of Surroundings’ is an ode to friendship. Belgian photographer Seppe Vancraywinkel imagines himself and his friends as moving through life inside a bubble that assumes form whenever they are together. In that space, he finds solace and refuge, for the bubble is impervious to the demanding clamour of the outside world. This series of photographs documents spontaneous moments in which both visual and affirmative traces of the bubble can be discerned. A...

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In the summer before the passing of Belgian artist Raoul De Keyser in 2012, Jef Van Eynde photographed the famous artist’s last studio setup. The works in this setup were intended for an exhibition at David Zwirner, which ended up taking the title of “The Last Wall”, taking after the name of Jef Van Eynde’s photographic series and publication.

Now, eleven years later, Jef Van Eynde went back to photograph Raoul De Keyser's studio and compiled them into this new series titled “Vesti...

After World War II, President Juan Perón of Argentina had Germans with particular military and technological expertise secretly smuggled into the country. Among them was the Austrian-born scientist Ronald Richter, who convinced Perón about the feasibility of generating unlimited energy through nuclear fusion. He received massive funding to build an experimental reactor on Huemel Island in Patagonia, but the project came to an abrupt end three years later. In this volume, visual artist Pablo...