MASTHEAD
Editors-in-Chief: Bridget Ferguson, Irene Wang
Graphic Designer: Greg Gibson
Photographer: Avery Frost
Editors: Emily Chu, Axelle Dequatre, Anling Dunn, David Grace, Ella Hughes, Hana Kovar, Felix Rowe, Jenykha Sangha
Contributing Artists: Téa Berretta, Sofia Borg
Contributing Writers: Sarah-Lune Bergeron, Illimani Mendoza-Mayrs, Sarah Wong, Alicia Laing
ARTICLES
Johann Moritz Rugendas, La Siesta, 1850. Oil on canvas, 20.5 x 26.8 in. São Paulo, Itaú Bank Collection © João L. Musa / Itaú Cultural.
Tropicality and the humboldtian gaze: European Exceptionalism in the Works of Johann Moritz Rugendas
Sarah-Lune Bergeron
Justine Kurland, Kung Fu Fighters, 1999. Courtesy of the artist.
EMBODYING TEENAGE GIRLHOOD: The Phenomenology of Girl pictures
Illimani Mendoza-Mayrs
Natalie Purschwitz’s outfit for Days 7 and 8 of The Makeshift Project, 2009. Courtesy of the artist.
Dressing the Embodied Subject in Natalie Purschwitz’s The Makeshift Project and the Untidy Politics of Craft
Sarah Wong
James Albers, silly boy, you’ve been daydreaming again (detail), 2023. Float-mounted 36 x 24 in. inkjet print by Simone Chnarakis, sheer curtain, and curtain rod. Installation photo © Dennis Ha. Reproduced with permission of the artists.
REORIENTATION THROUGH DISORIENTATION
Alicia Laing
ARTIST PROFILES
Téa Berretta, My Big Bouquet, 2024. Mixed media, 25 x 25 in. each, with
96 in. stem. Artist photo.
Téa berretta: Beyond Passivity
Hana Kovar
Sofia Borg: The impermanence of memory
Felix Rowe
REVIEWS
Brock Hall Art Gallery, ca. 1960. UBC Archives Photograph Collection, UBC 1.1/11094. Reproduced with permission.
OURS TO LOSE: Lessons from the Eighty-Year History of the AMS Permanent Collection and the Hatch Art Gallery
David Grace
Woven Histories: Textiles and Modern abstraction, National Gallery of Canada
Axelle Dequatre
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Issue 16, 2025. Published since 2009. Cover design by Greg Gibson.