Cura #46 - Soft Power

Cura #46 - Soft Power

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. 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, Róisín Tapponi, an incredibly rich board of authors, and over 420 pages, CURA.46 Soft Power presents the artists who are redefining the geographies of art today, actively intervening in the collective imagination not only through speculative or futuristic aesthetics, but across a variety of media. Artists who embody the ability of art to build worlds, dismantling dominant paradigms through new storylines and the possibility of reinterpreting the past or imagining possible futures: techno-cultural and postcolonial identities, decolonial futures, and speculative imaginaries capable of developing alternative visions intertwine with the memory of home, family experience, and history. Artists 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. Contributors 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.

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CURA. is also engaged in editorial activity with books production, multimedia content, and multidisciplinary collaborations. CURA. was the artistic director of the Belgrade Biennale 2021, and it runs the independent projects of the Clubbing fanzine and the Display Collection, in collaboration with designers, artists, and architects.