MATTO (Issue #8)

“The curiosity about how we see and about the different ways of how we can see. The curiosity about how the way of seeing can transform one to another, and let it become something else”. MATTO #8 contains Andrea Fraser speaking with Chris Dercon about the relationships of care. Bonnie Banane and stage as a place of decision. Claire Cottrell’s notes on the enduring appeal of the 1990s. Swimming in the Sea of Thought: non-fiction written somewhere between Lamu, Kenya and Paris, France. Robert Smithson’s posters. 24 pages of Cristaseya’s home and objects. Notes on creative spaces: lemons, soy sauce dish and the smell of dried palm leaves. Aodhan Madden’s wildly hilarious fiction. Femke de Vries and clothes for interspecies communication. 3 images in 1 poem by Abdourahman A. Waberi. Alek O.’s walk-and-see in Milan. Kostas Murkudis remembering 1973. Mimosa Echard’s zine Bébé Marie à New York. And more. MATTO explores contemporary life through personal relationships with arts and design. There are conversations, studio visits, essays and carte blanche. This issue has two cover variations: choose the hairless sphynx cat, or the white, insanely furry one. 168 pgs, 27 x 20 cm, Softcover, 2024