In times of conflict and imposed power structures, artists tell stories of different worlds and alternative narratives. They do not represent the world from a single perspective: they narrate it from multiple viewpoints, with their ability to subvert perceptions and connect differences, participating in processes of cultural transformation.
With five portrait covers featuring Sung Tieu, Cao Fei, Christelle Oyiri, Tabita Rezaire, and Róisín Tapponi, and over 420 pages, Cura. #46 – Soft Power presents artists redefining the geographies of contemporary art. The issue brings together techno-cultural and postcolonial identities, decolonial futures, speculative imaginaries, and narratives rooted in memory, home, and history.
Featuring Sung Tieu, Cao Fei, Ayoung Kim, Meriem Bennani, Farah Al Qasimi, Dorota Gawęda & Eglė Kulbokaitė, Tolia Astakhishvili, Lydia Ourahmane, Melike Kara, Precious Okoyomon, Diamond Stingily, Sandra Mujinga, Tabita Rezaire, Christelle Oyiri, Ruba Karabekian, Li Yi-Fan, Janiva Ellis, Mawena Yehouessi, Sadaf H. Nava.
This issue comes with different covers, randomly distributed.
Cura.magazine is a platform for contemporary art based in Rome that investigates with an independent spirit today's artistic production, art's emerging scene and the borders that have marked its central moments, through collaborations with international artists and curators, who live in different areas of the world. It has a production of three issues per year.
The platform is also an editorial structure (Cura.books), publishing a series of artist's books (see the corresponding page in the publishers section).
Contributions by Dan Rees, Christopher Williams-Wynn, Xue Tan, Ruba Katrib, Ruth Gebreyesus, Sarah Johanna Theurer, Alvin Li, Fabio Cherstich, Myriam Ben Salah, Jamieson Webster, Coumba Samba, Nikita Sena Quarshie, Mariam Elnozahy, Martha Kirszenbaum, Róisín Tapponi, Nora N. Khan, Mohamed Almusibli, Rosanna Puyol Boralevi, Laura McLean-Ferris.
