Including contributions from Søren Andreasen, Vickie Aravindhan, Tenzing Barshee, John Beeson, Leo Bersani, Gerry Bibby, Matt Billings, Kaucyila Brooke, Mercedes Bunz, David Bussel, Octavia E. Butler, Bonnie Camplin, Jay Chung, Leidy Churchman, Eric D. Clark, Louis Coy, Hans-Christian Dany, Boz David, Katja Diefenbach, Nikola Dietrich, Francesca Drechsler, Martin Ebner, Peter Fend, Sokol Ferizi, Stephanie Fezer, Julian Göthe, Michèle Graf, Jennifer Green, Selina Grüter, Cornelia Herfurtner, Karl Holmqvist, Nadira Husain, David Iselin-Ricketts, Blake Jacobsen, Monika Kalinauskaite, Heinz Peter Knes, Jakob Kolding, Michael Krebber, Klara Liden, Tyler Lumm, John Allan MacLean, Q Takeki Maeda, Robert McKenzie, Robert Meijer, Giselle Morgan, Ariane Müller, Christopher Müller, Henrik Olesen, Mark von Schlegell, Ace Shi, Dan Solbach, Natasha Soobramanien, AJ Strout, Vera Tollmann, Katrin Trüstedt, Evelyn Taocheng Wang, Scott Cameron Weaver, Luke Williams, Josh Winklholfer, Amelie von Wulffen, Florian Zeyfang.

Designed by Dan Solbach & Starship, with individual cover artwork by Klara Liden.

Including contributions from Rosa Aiello, Terry Atkinson, Tenzing Barshee, Gerry Bibby, Mercedes Bunz, David Bussel, Jay Chung, Eric D. Clark, Caleb Considine, Hans-Christian Dany, Albert Dichy, Nikola Dietrich, Martin Ebner, Ruth Angel Edwards, Stephanie Fezer, Jean Genet, Simone Gilges, Julian Göthe, Michèle Graf, Selina Grüter, Ulrich Heinke, Toni Hildebrandt, Beatrice Hilke, Karl Holmqvist, Stephan Janitzky, G. Peter Jemison, Charlotte Johannesson, Julia Jost, Julia Jung, Nina Könnemann, Jakob Kolding, Lars Bang Larsen, Anita Leisz, Norman Lewis, Elisa R. Linn, Sebastian Lütgert, Vera Lutz, Chloée Maugile, Robert McKenzie, Ariane Müller, Christopher Müller, Robert M. Ochshorn, Henrik Olesen, Nina Rhode, Kari Rittenbach, Ulla Rossek, Cameron Rowland, Mark von Schlegell, Philipp Simon, Ryan Siegan Smith, Josef Strau, Valerie Stahl Stromberg, Vera Tollmann, Eleanor Ivory Weber, Camilla Wills, Amelie von Wulffen, Florian Zeyfang.

Designed by Dan Solbach & Starship.

Edited by Marie Angeletti with Gianmaria Andreetta and Camilla Wills.

Paradis is a continuation of the eponymous exhibition conceived by artist Marie Angeletti in Marseilles in 2021. The exhibition brought together 56 artists of different origins and generations. More than just a transcription of this event, this catalogue brings together some one hundred contributions, combining critical texts, poetry, artists’ writings and new translations, alongside an equally large number of visual contributions and ad hoc works, most of them previously unpublished.

From February 12 to March 6, 2022, Pure Fiction presented an exhibition and performance program at the Kölnischer Kunstverein in Cologne titled Shifting Theater: Sibyl’s Mouths. The starting point was a collective reading of Mary Shelley’s 1826 novel The Last Man, in which the narrator discovers a collection of scribbled oak leaves scattered in a cave outside Naples.

Contributions by Rosa Aiello, Gerry Bibby, Coleman Collins, Ayanna Dozier, Annie Ernaux, Amelia Groom, Michèle Graf & Selina Grüter, Monilola Olayemi Ilupeju, Ellen Yeon Kim, Bitsy Knox, Dan Kwon, Erika Landström, Enad Marouf, Katrin Mayer, Aislinn McNamara, Kamila & Jasmina Metwaly, Luzie Meyer, Vera Palme, Theresa Patzschke, Georgia Sagri, Mahsa Saloor, Elif Saydam, Mark von Schlegell, Simon Speiser, Elaine Tam, C.S. Tolan, Mikhail Wassmer, Anna Zacharoff.

Autoreduction is a project initiated by Dora Budor at Progetto (Lecce, Italy) in the summer of 2021 that began with detouring a solo exhibition onto a collaborative course to traverse the itineraries of work, leisure, and consumption in southern Italy. Conceived as a companion to the exhibition, the book features commissioned texts by Noah Barker and Marina Vishmidt, with contributions by all the artists originally participating in the exhibition (Noah Barker, Dora Budor, Michèle Graf and Selina Grüter, Niloufar Emamifar, and Ser Serpas), together with an addendum by Stefano Faoro.