Aesthetica #120

Produced in the north of England, Aesthetica offers a much-welcomed, non London-centric view of art, design, photography and general culture.

August / September 2024
Undefined

The transience of everything is as startling as it is awe-inspiring. Each day is a new day. There’s power in reinvention and its profound ability to transform lives and societies.

It embodies the courage to let go of the past and embrace new possibilities, driving innovation. It allows us to break free from limiting beliefs, adapt to changing environments and pursue our passions with vigour.

This issue celebrates humanity’s creative impulse. Anthony McCall’s Solid Light opens this summer at Tate Modern. McCall is known for genre-bending installations that occupy a space between sculpture, cinema, drawing and performance. This issue also includes and interview with Ruth Wallen about the Walking with Trees project, looking at how forests respond to urbanisation, globalisation and climate change.

Also included is a conversation with Pritzker Prize-winning Japanese architect Shigeru Ban about his Paper Tube Emergency Shelters. He is lauded for “curiosity, commitment, endless innovation, an infallible eye and acute sensibility.”

In photography, the issue sets off on experimental journeys and take the possibilities of what image-making can and should be to new heights with Giuseppe Lo Schiavo, Karine Laval, Marta Djourina, Natalia Klimza and Svante Gullichsen. Finally, the Last Words go to Maëlle Dufour, in partnership with Visit Flanders.