In issue #97, Love emerges as a balm for the growing breakdown of ties and relationships. The aim is to foreground the political subject’s body as a site of affection, empathy, and encounter, placing it at the heart of a politics that seems increasingly abstract and detached from a relational nexus we consider effective and tangible.
Covers, back covers and Art Projects by Ana Vidigal and Soeun Park; exhibition curated by Filipa da Rocha Nunes; written essays by p. feijó and Camila Lobo, Renny Pritikin, Nuno Alexandre Ferreira, Adriana Veríssimo Serrão, Daniel Cardoso, Francisca Salema, Colin Ginks, José Pardal Pina and Maria Inês Mendes; visual essays by Isa Toledo, Duda Affonso, Elisa Azevedo and Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens; art projects by Vera Midões, Sofia Rocha, Gonçalo Preto and Marcelino Santos; in the UmbigoLAB section, Jiôn Kiim and Pedro O Novo.
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ÍNDICE
A Poem
1 > I dreamt that love was the pandemic of the world – Cláudia R. Sampaio
12 > Editorial
14 > Contributors
Mixed media on paper
30 > To be a lover – Luísa Salvador
Deep Learning
34 > #33 – Paulo Brás (Livraria Aberta bookshop)
Conversation Piece - PLMJ
36 > #17 – João Silvério
Project Ana Vidigal (COVER 1)
40 > Profile by Maria Brás Ferreira
43 > Art Project
Project Soeun Park (COVER 2)
50 > Profile by Orsola Vannocci Bonsi
53 > Art Project
Exhibition
60 > Love (last but not least) Poetry was only missing the letter u: You by Filipa da Rocha Nunes
Essays
79 > The love-to-come – p. Feijó and Camila Lobo
83 > Reflections on Love, the Body and Art – Renny Pritikin
88 > A Difference-Making Machine – Nuno Alexandre Ferreira
92 > Eternal Love or Tragic Love? A Metaphysical Interpretation – Adriana Veríssimo Serrão
95 > The courage to love – Daniel Cardoso
99 > in the name of love an ode to Mercury – Francisca Salema
102 > Art Love Death – Colin Ginks
105 > Forever Cicciolina, the Saint – José Pardal Pina
110 > The Teaches of Peaches: on love (AND LUBE) – Maria Inês Mendes
Visual Essays
116 > Isa Toledo
121 > A Feast for Decadence: All About Love – Duda Affonso
126 > Elisa Azevedo
131 > Bazoombas in Love, Our Adventures in Breast Cancer – Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens
Drawing Project – Fundação Carmona e Costa
136 > Vera Midões
Interchanges Project – FLAD
143 > Sofia Rocha
Landscapes Project
150 > #6 – Gonçalo Preto
Unfolding
158 > CNAD – Marcelino Santos
164 > Contextile 2026
UmbigoLAB – Millennium bcp Foundation
170 > #29 – Jiôn Kiim, about the UmbigoLAB artistic residency @ the Casa de Mateus Foundation 2026 – Mafalda Teixeira
175 > #30 – Pedro O Novo – Maria Inês Augusto
Zoom
180 > Panic Realism, by Amelie von Wulffen
181 > ARTCUT, the first Triennial of Contemporary Art sponsored by the Vatican
182 > Canicula at Complesso dell’Ospedaletto
183 > Art Spectrum 2026 – ARoomWhereEveryRadioIsTunedtoDifferentStations
184 > Sanitary Fables
Back cover
Soeun Park, 향로 [Incense burner], 2025
