Order your copy of Speciwomen Issue 5.

This new issue is a curated volume of portfolios, essays and conversations between artists, critics and curators from Cuba and its diaspora. The volume was curated by interdisciplinary artist and writer Coco Fusco. Speciwomen was awarded the Shannon Michael Cane Award in conjunction with this volume.

Artists & art historians in the issue: Yissel Arce, Sandra Ceballos, Solveig Font, Alejandra Glez, Celia Gonzales, Glenda León, Susana Pillar, Sandra Ramos, Grethell Rasúa, Gertrudis Rivalta, Suset Sánchez.

Miss.Tic, À la vie, à l‘amor: Art dans la ville, poétique de la révolte (1985-2022) (Speciwomen, 2024) is the first retrospective monograph in conjunction with the posthumous institutional exhibition of French-Tunisian artist Miss.Tic’s work at Palais des Papes in Avignon in 2024.

This publication presents the multifaceted aspects of Miss.Tic‘s practice, both graphically and editorially. The bilingual French-English catalog is a hybrid exhibition catalog centered around Miss.Tic‘s work combining images, fiction, poetry, scientific articles, and interviews.

Contributing authors: Loraine Furter, Julien Gallon, Marie-Dominique Gil, Jina Khayyer, Camille Lévy Sarfati, Emné Nasereddine, Amélie Nothomb, Vittorio Parisi, Gérard Zlotykamien.

Eléonore: Safe Travel (Speciwomen, 2024) is a book of postcards published in conjunction to the artist’s first solo exhibition at Justine Kurland Studio in New York. It contains all the works from the exhibition, a traveling memorabilia of the show.

“In 1985 the feminist theorist Donna Haraway defined the posthuman feminist condition with her essay A Cyborg Manifesto, rejecting rigid patriarchal social identities for a capacious, agile, and elusive hybridity that collapses the clear distinctions between human, animal, and machine. Eléonore’s chimeric explorations—her form meeting machine, flower, lion, dog, mountain, phoenix, and tree—speak to the great liberatory potential of multiplicity, in this case emerging from the very literal trauma of her cancer. Mastectomie au soleil (Mastectomy in the Sun, 2023) is a culmination of Eléonore’s shape-shifting: her metal-toned body is still fleshy but is in the process of breaking apart, glitching, and becoming.” – Marina Chao