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To All My Past Neighbors
Jessica Francis Kane
‘Connections are being forged, even as we keep our distance. Let’s hold onto them in the after.’
Jessica Francis Kane on neighbourliness in the time of COVID-19.
The Paternoster: A Requiem
Mark Blacklock
‘To step into a paternoster lift is to step into the circulatory system of a building, to become a part of its very structure.’
On Alice Coltrane
Ashley Kahn
‘I habitually compartmentalize, until an artist so singular and unrooted reminds me to reboot my thinking.’
Carrot Bread
Annabel Banks
‘A short story is a loose-knit sweater, a trawler’s net, where the spaces and holes are inseparable from the whole.’
Plague Diary: April
Gonçalo M. Tavares
‘Pictures from some cities in Latin America: the burning in front of the family home of the dead who are not collected by the state.’
Introduction
Rana Dasgupta
‘We cherish communion, exchange and intercourse, of course, but also distance, seclusion and defence. Talk of membranes, therefore, is never entirely literal.’
Newts
Anita Roy
‘Under a microscope, its skin looks lacy and netted, and it is this very porousness that makes these creatures so vulnerable.’
Laxmi
Anita Khemka & Rana Dasgupta
‘Anita’s documentation of Laxmi developed into what has become a lifelong friendship bound by photography.’
Rana Dasgupta introduces the photography of Anita Khemka.
Secondhand
Mónica de la Torre
‘Eerily animated, it’s as if the gloves persist in their attempt to express something that can’t be reduced to words, something untranslatable.’
Snap
Anouchka Grose
‘What a strange, terrible, exciting present – something you have to defile in order to appreciate.’
You Are Here, You Are Not a Ghost
Mark Doty
‘Does it make you a little ghostly yourself, when what’s gone is more present for you than what’s here?’
Border Documents
Arturo Soto
‘The twin cities of El Paso and Ciudad Juárez lie either side of the US–Mexico border.’
