Issue 42.1: Materiality Launch Event

Please join us at Mutuus Gallery for the launch of Materiality, the largest issue of our print journal to date! Issue 42.1: Materiality will be released alongside a specially curated exhibition of work from national artists, centering the themes of material and material use.

Issue 42.1: Materiality
Co-edited by John Parman & Camilla Szabo
Design by Finnegan Schneider

Issue 42.1: Materiality centers around critical discourse on architecture and the built environment, materials and sustainability in relation to a rapidly advancing world, and ephemeral works relating to scent, photography, textile, and sculpture. Themes include tactile engagement with the natural world, craft as a record of time, the role of technology in material understanding, and Indigenous fables on timber, territory & extractivism.

Materiality is a rich, sweeping theme which can’t be contained by one literal definition. It can include the ephemeral—scent, a shadow, an echo... It can be the poetry of architecture, or a photograph which leaves a trace of a history—or obstructs history altogether. It can be a clay vessel casting an incantation, acting as both a transmitter and receiver. Or the discolored patina on a hand painted cabinet after years of wear, each door a slightly different shade than the rest. 

Featured print journal contributors include Saul Becker, Kim Clements, Madeline Cotton, Lisa Di Donato, Marjorie Dial, Lydia Felty, Rocky Hanish, Noor Hiyeri, Peiting Li, Claire Needs, Garrett Nelli, Meg Partridge, Andrew Rabeneck, Anne-Catrin Schultz, Katrina Spade, Madeleine Stearns, Loren Supp, and Nina Wigfall. 

Art Opening:

Featuring work by Saul Becker, Imogen Cunningham, Lisa Di Donato, Marjorie Dial, and Jessie Homer French. Curated by Camilla Szabo.