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Somewhere between doxxed and anonymous, the alleged fashion brand becomes a silhouette for projection and dissection, while a leaked audio transcript fills the dead air with Victor’s own reflections.
Three full-length investigations unfold a cross-section of different conceptual terrains: from the cursed dimension of 虚圏ウェコムンド, to the white cube of Instagram and first person shooter maps of the US military/pharmacology pipeline.
B.Y.O.E.N. also includes official JPEGs from Victor Barragán’s Youth Is the Answer exhibition at Carlye Packer in 2025, with on-site field recordings by Hendrik Schneider.
Contents:
MADAME YOUTH by Fiorella De Caro. Childbirth, puppets; class is in session. BARRAGÁN claims Youth Is The Answer, Madame Du Coudray never second guessed it.
SELF-CANCELLATION by Sam Harding. A lazy google search for the word Barragán becomes an unravelling spiral of language, symbols, fabric and flesh into an infinite desert of data. All Hail Baraggan, hollow king.
ARGOT by Manga Ngcobo. Victor Barragán LARPs as a fashion designer in New York, just as Rayner Banham once did as a driver in Los Angeles, to uncover mutating strains of fringe identity across various enclaves of the American empire.
BODY ON THE LINE by Fin Cousins. The faces, fluids and flags of Victor Barragán are read as a counter-liturgy to the trance-states of modern media. An anti-propaganda machine built to reverse the terms of domination it borrows from.
WARDS ;-4-,8- by Ruby Bailey. You are never late for your appointment. The clock measures stillness. The snake is blind. There are chemicals here, and no more metaphors.
GRAPHIC DESIGN by Pauline Hill.
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Featuring entities such as Blackhaine, Ana Viktoria Dzinic, GR10K, Frost Children, White Ward, Lucas Muñoz Muñoz, Adilson De Oliveira, Hongxi Li, Olivia Kan-Sperling, Camofleur and Nicola Turner, the edition acts as a sinewy, multifunctional device, weaving together disciplines, tensions, and digital and physical worlds.
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Articles cover 12 Dogs, the underground Jozi rap group; the haunted topographies of French Magnum photographer Antoine D'Agata; an interview with the elusive Milanese architecture firm Armature Globale; conversations with Creative Director Katharina Korbjuhn, author & technologist Jonathan Ledgard and much more.
With original art and writing by Alex Whitehead, Ella Motean, Fin Cousins, Kyle Thomson, Manga Ngcobo, Ruby Bailey, Osvald Landmark and Sam Harding
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