Extra Extra #26

The fragrant allure of Extra Extra issue #26 stirs the loins of ardent longing. Berlin based artist and scientist Sissel Tolaas unwraps the essence of olfactory desire in an interview with our programme board member Amira Gad, championing the forgotten language of smell. Writer and critic Olivia Laing disentangles the riotous force of the erotic and the grotesque with curator Natasha Hoare.

Filmmaker Payal Kapadia explores the intricacies of female friendship and dark corners for lovers in erratic Mumbai with film journalist Caitlin Quinlan and artist Ayoung Kim opens up to museum director Defne Ayas in a warm conversation about traversing fractured realities and the sensual tension of hyperbolic storytelling, doubling and parallel selves. In Feel Me, Hear MeNew York embraces you through the walks by Nadine Botha, Adam Kleinman and Andros Zins-Browne, following Dürer’s rhinoceros while the last strains of Sonny Rollin’s saxophone echoes from a bridge.

In Object of Desire, writer Huw Lemmey soaks the sponge in Hollywood history, letting it foam with fraught yearning. Interdisciplinary fashion design duo MAISON the FAUX lay bare the friction of fashion with journalist and researcher Nora Veerman, while in News from Home Tom Hofland pursues the phantom of a past lover through haunted urban spaces and Arno Braet’s Urbex traces the slippery wet contours of Ostend’s seductive body.

Immerse yourself in artist Batia Suter’s archival images mixed with glassy adornments that tickle the vision and photographer Claudia Andujar’s intimate reflections on womanhood and vibrant streets of Sao Paolo. Artist Kevin Osepa captures the intertwining of the everyday with the spiritual in Afro-Caribbean culture while artist Peter Doig’s flirtatious and vibrant paintings almost dance off the page and photographer Johny Pitts’ likens the city to a lover’s quarrel.

Issue #26 of Extra Extra flirtatiously tugs at the strings of the mind and the senses, invoked by the most daring and titillating voices of today.