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Time in the city: Walking the Night
Le Grand Jeu 15, passage de Ménilmontant, Paris, FranceOver the course of two nights, Manhattan’s Lower East Side becomes both setting and subject in time in the city, a photo zine shot entirely by New York–based photographer Alain Levitt. Reduced to streets, faces, movements, and pauses, the neighborhood appears as a sequence of fleeting moments, fragments of a city experienced at walking pace, […]
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Aller-Retour — 15 Artists, 15 Recipes
Le Grand Jeu 15, passage de Ménilmontant, Paris, FranceIndependent magazines often become spaces for unexpected collaborations. With Aller-Retour, illustration meets cooking through a collective project that brings together artists around a simple and universal gesture: sharing recipes. The magazine gathers illustrated recipes by fifteen artists — including APOCALYPSE, NAMASTE, SEKEL, ELY and MEUH — each translating a personal dish into drawings, symbols and […]
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Affichage Libre — Beneath the Walls
Walls are constantly speaking, layered with advertisements, announcements, fragments, and disappearances. With Affichage Libre, Joachim Romain transforms these urban surfaces into a field of experimentation, revealing unexpected forms hidden beneath the city’s visual noise. Working directly on posters found in public space, the artist tears, peels, and reshapes paper into temporary sculptural compositions. Photographed before […]
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When T-Shirts Become Archives
Le Grand Jeu 15, passage de Ménilmontant, Paris, FranceSome archives are not built at once, but slowly assembled through years of looking, collecting, and remembering. Before culture became fully digitised, memory often lived in magazines, photographs, mixtapes and personal objects — fragments that carried entire worlds within them. Journalist, editor and curator Eglée de Bure opens her personal archive in Roots Picnic Music […]
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Silly Little Projects Vol. II — D.I.Y. Trying
Le Grand Jeu 15, passage de Ménilmontant, Paris, FranceSome objects are impossible to throw away and useless to keep. A ticket stub, a broken earring, a key to a door that no longer exists. That is where Alisa Cayoo starts. The Paris-based designer builds one-of-a-kind chains out of found and sentimental objects — the name comes from cailloux, the pebbles you pick up and […]
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Trente-Cinq — Three Letters from Namur
Le Grand Jeu 15, passage de Ménilmontant, Paris, FranceAn MC warms up a crowd, somewhere in Namur, some year in the nineties: three letters, a group you don't need introducing, NBS, make some noise. That tape still exists, and so does the crew. Namur Break Sensation have been at it for thirty-five years, which in b-boy terms is closer to a geological era […]
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Du bitume au sacré — Still Under Construction
Le Consulat Voltaire 114 Avenue Parmentier, Paris, FranceBefore Homecore, there was a kid from the banlieue raised the hard way, with street culture as a first language. That kid was Alexandre Guarneri. Thirty years after founding one of French hip-hop's defining labels, he has gone back through his own story to ask how you take apart what you were taught in order […]