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Trebuchet is a biannual contemporary art magazine which dives deep into artists and their work to explain why it's good, rather than just tell you that it is.
From the Publisher about Issue 18:
"Mention a foreign object and most people think of medical shows or crime dramas, where something unexpected has been discovered in a person’s body, the sort of visceral horror that made filmmaker David Cronenberg famous. Yet the term carries broader meanings that resonate deeply in contemporary society.
A foreign object could be anything material dislocated from its original time or place: art and artefacts brought back from colonial enterprises and displayed in a museum, objects that reflect a society’s understanding of what constitutes the familiar and the other. To a degree, all art can be seen to create estrangement, forcing us to confront the familiar in the strange or the strange in the familiar. There is an incessant translocation between the object and ourselves, between the foreign and the known. By exploring art, we come to regard ourselves in hitherto unexpected ways; we become foreign objects within our own bodies, in our own time. The assumed boundaries of who or what we consider ourselves to be are challenged, and we begin to question our own constituent parts and paths. In essence, encountering the foreign is encountering new ideas, new selves, our selva obscura.
This issue aims to explore the relationship between ourselves, our assumptions, our pasts, and our potential futures. We live in an era of paradoxical change: of boundaries and nationalism, but also of inclusion, celebrated difference, and the search for new limits. As we discover new things in virgin territories, we must examine those processes by which we make things foreign and those by which we make things familiar. The acceptance of novel phenomena into our worldview has long been the subject of philosophical inquiry, but as our ability to encounter the world expands through increased virtualisation, so too do the methods through which we categorise the new. If we’re fortunate, this expansion alters not only what we find useful, but even what we consider possible.
Art is at the forefront of how we conceive of our full potential as human beings, a reality which endeavours to find the irreplaceable in the perspectives of others and the invaluable in that which we share with strangers. As travellers all in unfamiliar territories, we invite you to embrace what feels foreign, to perceive yourself transformed."
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