Marco Brambilla’s 3D digital collages are made by plundering images from the history of pop culture and Hollywood and reforming them into narrative kaleidoscopes. On the occasion of “Double Feature”, his upcoming installation at Fotografiska Berlin, we revisit a conversation with the artist from 2014.

“I’m interested in the notion of impossibility, the notion of limits.” Mire Lee has been known to disobey taboos. On the occasion of Lee’s Turbine Hall installation at the Tate Modern, the Korean artist reflects on ugliness, porn, and death.

Social activists, creative renegades, and an international literary movement. In this interview, AGNES MAGGIE SHU speaks with the elusive founders of the faceless collective WU MING, who share their unique approach to shaping and infiltrating culture.

“Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional,” writes Haruki Murakami. Part training diary and part actual diary, his book has evolved into a life manual for runners—and this is also true of ANDREI KRAVSTOV, founder of OPTIMISTIC RUNNERS. Ahead of the Berlin Marathon, AGNES MAGGIE SHU poses just one question: Why do you run?

For his sold-out Madison Square Garden concert, TROYE SIVAN wears full custom 032c Readytowear by MARIA KOCH.

In Andrei Tarkovsky’s The Stalker (1979) a man risks his freedom in a post-apocalyptic dystopia leading a writer and a professor to an unnamed place. Shrouded in governmental secrecy and prefaced by an unspecified past, the place is simply referred to as the “The Zone.” It contains another place within it alleged to fulfill any worldly desire: “The Room.” In this shoot featuring Zalando Streetwear, VIKTOR NAUMOVSKI captures the human navigation of these unspecified industrial spaces and potential for warmth within their structure. 

“Every single moment of meeting and parting in my life is my inspiration". In a global industry of polished-to-perfection pop idols, SAAY sees her music not as a neatly packaged product, but as life spilling over into sound. 032c joined SAAY for a week in Seoul ahead of her performance at Frieze Music.

“This is a cybernetic folktale that illustrates our relationship to life and death, of material and immaterial worlds,” writes GÜNSELI YALCINKAYA. Through DM strings with Freeka Tet, Maison Margiela’s widely circulated AW-24, Shoggoth memes of artificial intelligence, and more, Yalcinkaya disseminates our innate kinship towards the puppet and its return as today’s folkloric symbol.

Roland Barthes once advocated for the death of the author—032c veteran ADRIANO SACK has done exactly that. In conversation with SHANE ANDERSON, the writer and critic discusses death and lust, autofiction, and the symmetry within his debut novel.

The diction of “girl,” over “woman,” is one that SHUSHU/TONG has been explicit about since their founding. In conversation with AGNES MAGGIE SHU, the duo speak on designing womenswear with a male gaze, logomania, and “coquette” joining the trend cycle.

In MAGGIE DUNLAP’s work, you will find the human body—sometimes her own—depicted as vulnerable, subjected, enslaved. In conversation with ARIANNA CASERTA, Dunlap speaks on the glam narrativization of horrors that true crime is based upon, letting go of authorship, and what it takes to truly shock.

American Artist—whose official, legal name is actually “American Artist”—is concerned with thought experiments that address the history (and present) of technology, race, and knowledge. In conversation with Claire Koron Elat, American Artist talks about racist and militarized intentions of early computer technology, the user/programmer relationship, and claiming American as part of his identity.