Afterall: Spring/Summer 2022, Issue 53

Published twice a year, each issue of Afterall journal includes in-depth considerations of the work of contemporary artists, as well as essays on art history and critical theory.

Issue 53 ‘Medium/Metaphor/Milieu’ looks at the exhibitionary in and beyond exhibitions. Gathered through the notions of medium and milieu, it looks at a range of practices and modes of thinking that foreground the exhibitionary in concrete, spatial, architectural and experiential terms. In parallel, the artists and authors included also explore the risks and potential of metaphors as a site of exhibition-making.

Elisa Adami is a research fellow and editor at Afterall who is based at the University of the Arts London.

Amanda Carneiro is a researcher and currently works as an assistant curator at the Museu de Arte de São Paulo.
 

Nav Haq is associate director at the Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp where he is responsible for the development of the artistic programme.
 

Mark Lewis is a Canadian artist and filmmaker. He lives and works in London.

Adeena Mey is a researcher and curator. He is the managing editor of Afterall and a lecturer at Lausanne University of Art and Design, Switzerland.