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Magical Realism: Imagining Natural Dis/order

€ 4000

2025 Softcover, 208 pages, 21 x 28 cm Edited by Sofia Dati assisted by Febe Lamiroy
Published by Mercatorfonds
Designed by Adriaan Van Leuven
Texts by Karen Barad, Federico Campagna & Febe Lamiroy, Chris Cyrille-Isaac, Sofia Dati, Vinciane Despret & Letícia Renault, Zayaan Khan, Shayma Nader, Susan Schuppli, Dirk Snauwaert.
English and French.

ISBN EN/FR MF 978-94-6230-398-0

How do we imagine life in a world facing global upheaval and ecological challenges? 

This book, as well as the exhibition it accompanies, is an invitation to move away from systems driven by endless growth and resource extraction, encouraging renewed ways of conceiving of the ‘natural’ world. When the world of science and hard facts has been separated from the world of magic and intuition, how do we bridge this divide, what are the after-effects and how do we repair? Magical Realism examines how the porosity between ‘magic’ and ‘reality’
may open up spaces for other horizons to emerge in response to proliferating monocultures, precarious lives and climate change. At the confluence of analysis and speculation, the authors and the artists brought together in this book explore paths towards restoring connections in a biosphere exhausted by exploitation, dispossession and debt.

Bilingual publication: French - English. 
A free digital NL translation is available on the NL language page.

Exhibition