Pictures of the moon, the ultimate topos in photography, have been given a new twist in Erik

In March 2022, here at Monday Press, we began receiving long emails from an anonymous account belonging to someone we barely knew. These letters were sent from deep underground—so deep that we weren’t even sure if it was safe to reply. They told an insider’s story of a world in the process of being erased: the anxiety, the fear, and the longing for something that was vanishing right before the author’s eyes. Over the course of a year, we received four letters and a series of photographs (taken by someone else). The author of the letters is now in a safe place but prefers to remain anonymous.

The book describes the Russian noise underground in the first year of the war. It’s a devastating read, raw, excessive, hyper-existential, intimate, edge of the world, anti-war, written from the inside.

with photographs by Wassily Bosch
Published in 2025

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@ Motto Paris
Saturday 01.03.2025,
from 6pm
/ 2021
Stefanie Klingemann and  travel and work together on and besides the road, in public space and in temporary arrangements. On their ways they develop site- and context-specific interventions in existing structures and found situations. The compositions they create are often poetic, silent, and usually of ephemeral duration. At Motto Paris they present a set of postcards of this practice. 

 presents his recently realised oral publication “Erzählungen (1982– )” along with a set of posters “Outlines & Scenarios” – an ongoing collection of scenarios and sketches being rolled out and talked about in various conversations.

Motto Paris
38 rue du Vertbois
75003 Paris

(image: Stefanie Klingemann &  at Villa Romana, Florence. 2021)ce )

ENTRE DOS AGUAS
Carlos León Zambrano

Sound Performance

Friday 14.02
8:30pm (sharp)

МОТТО
Skalitzerstr 68
BERLIN

The winter of our technomedieval era continues.

Join us this Saturday, February 8th at 7 PM as we delve into ontological narratives with Anya Tsirlina, Sid Yandovka, and their films. 

Sid Iandovka and Anya Tsyrlina (both born in Novosibirsk, USSR) are an artist-duo whose practice extends across many different media, predominantly moving images. Though only selected works of theirs are co-authored in a traditional sense, as both have distinct interests and aesthetics, they have collaborated (on and off) for over twenty years – ultimately creating a joint, entirely independent, “homemade” production approach for their films. Their working methods are not products of any  educational/professional institutions and their practice is not rooted in any state; it is immaterial and doesn’t benefit from any national/international funding, resources or structures. The artists prefer for their own histories and words to remain in the background – but it’s not essential to know the whys and hows of these works, since there’s an almost alchemical and mystical quality to them that supersedes their construction.

February 8  Motto  38 rue du Vertbois  75003 Paris

This post is related the upcoming film screening within the framework of the cinema club and Film Association K1NO1.

Scacchiere e Scacchisti is the new editorial project of Studio Tonnato, the collective composed of Federico Leoni and Giordano Magnani. The duo is present on the scene of recent contemporary art, particularly linked to art experienced and interpreted through the filter of digital, and operates through installations, performances, events, prints and the internet.
The magazine is described by its creators as “pages of pure enjoyment, lots of friends, lots of piles, lots of (mad) chess”.

Scacchiere e Scacchisti is the sexiest chess magazine around, don’t you believe it? Spread pages, the eye that falls and the mouths that dry. A hot program. Are you ready to enter its soft belly? A cultural product that reflects on the scabrous and often censored theme of “chessboards”. A hidden world to get lost in. Thanks to the cultural raid of Natasha Ottavi, strong muse and refined chess player, and to many collaborations, we are ready to present you a paper golem that moves in an “L” and loses blood. Chess as you’ve never seen it.

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Pictures of the moon, the ultimate topos in photography, have been given a new twist in Erik Steinbrecher’s MONDFOTOGRAFIE. The Swiss artist collects pictures of the moon and rephotographs

The project THE SOUND OF NORMALISATION is a collection of audio recordings that documents the sound culture of the Ultras group BRESCIA 1911 in relation to modern football and the wave of repressive measures targeted at organized supporters groups. The recordings were taken over a period of 15 years and cover: 1) creation, uses and meanings of the chants 2) group principles and collective identity 3) audience participation and the process of social exclusion from the stadium 4) police repression and the political implications of the chants 5) the evolution of the drumming in relation to the drums ban-order of 2007. Each recording comes with a short introductory text and is presented as a video with subtitles. The work has been published in 2018 by SARU, Oxford Brookes University.

Since early 2000 Tidoni has been researching football supporter subculture, audience participation and crowd regulation. The overall research concerns the nexus of public space, social performance and surveillance in contemporary Italian football.

The aim of the research is to trace mechanisms of social interaction and aesthetic creation in football supporters’ subculture via an examination of the sound practices shared by the group Brescia 1911. Relations between sound production and space construction are investigated especially in the light of dynamics of social control adopted in football grounds in the last years.

The research contributes to a better understanding of sound’s function in group formation and collective identity as well as how sound performance and social repertoire evolve in relation to public security measures and space control.

In 2015, a first concrete materialization of the project has been exhibited at ARGOS, centre for art and media, Brussels. In 2018, the final version of the project has been presented at GET SOME CHALK ON YOUR BOOTS! an exhibition and conference organized by SARU at Oxford Brookes University.

Author: Davide Tidoni

Publisher: SARU and VIAINDUSTRIAE SUONO

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Pictures of the moon, the ultimate topos in photography, have been given a new twist in Erik Steinbrecher’s MONDFOTOGRAFIE. The Swiss artist collects pictures of the moon and rephotographs them, placing a finger on the lens. In this way, images of the full moon are transformed into obscure crescents.

MONDFOTOGRAFIE is a dark and witty artist’s book that takes a subtle, yet illuminating approach not only to the discourse on the photographic image but also to the interpretation and reading of images in general.

Erik Steinbrecher (born 1963 in Basel, lives and works in Berlin) is known to a wide international audience particularly since his participation in documenta X (1997) as well as further major institutional presentations such as at Kunst-Werke in Berlin, MoMA PS1 in New York, the Kunsthalle Vienna, the Museum Haus Konstruktiv in Zurich or The Weserburg Museum of Modern Art in Bremen. His work as artist has developed in two main directions; the areas of sculpture and architecture as well as the realm of publication. Steinbrecher released numerous books and printed matters, which always expose a strong conceptual idea and function as independent artworks.

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This Sunday, January 12 at 7:00 PM, we will discuss hauntological narratives, nostalgia for places we have never been, and we will show two films:

Ewan Golder – Binary Love  A retrofuturistic dystopia about aging lovers and dating apps in dreams.
Txema Novelo – Déjalo Ser  A shamanic journey of poets in the Oaxaca desert, filmed on 8mm.

January 12  Motto  38 rue du Vertbois  75003 Paris

This post is related the upcoming film screening within the framework of the cinema club and Film Association K1NO1.

Didier Fiúza Faustino works in the field of visual arts and architecture, exploring the relationship between bodies and their environment.
The architect and artist designs his buildings, objects, videos and installations as places that resist spatial prescriptions and fulfill the needs of non-normative bodies. His oeuvre is a long evolution that compares the physical world with the world of numbers.
This publication is a manifesto and covers more than 25 years of research and implementation. It documents the genesis and formal development of Faustino’s work and, by means of texts and conversations, luminates the artist’s experimental work as it continues to evolve.

The publication is divided into three main parts. The first is designed as a magazine with fake advertisements created by Faustino’s Bureau des Mésarchitectures. The second focuses on the agency’s manifesto projects. The third part shows the realizations of these projects. In between these sections are the agency’s manifesto texts, as well as contributions from various authors analyzing the work of Faustino and his team.

Didier Fiúza Faustino was born in 1968 in Chennevieres-sur-Marne, France.
An artist-architect, he is based in Lisbon and Paris.

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Luo Yang is considered the shooting star of the current Chinese photo scene. This catalogue combines examples from her main works since the beginning of her career, intertwining them as they were personal stories.

Since 2007 the extensive series “GIRLS” has been created, a very personal examination of the photographer with women of her generation. Whether against the backdrop of Chinese megacities or in intimate settings in the private environment, the young women present themselves confident and individual, but at the same time appearing vulnerable and fragile. Apart from traditional female role models and traditional clichés, they are looking for their way to a self-determined life in the modern, rapidly transforming China.

In the series “YOUTH”, Luo Yang has been working with young people of Generation Z since 2019, i.e. those born in the late 1990s and around 2000. Fluid gender assignments become just as apparent as the search for individual expression between creative staging and authentic body feeling. Luo Yang paints the sensitive picture of the urban Chinese youth in search of orientation and identity.

Migrant Bird Space is a Berlin & Beijing-based art foundation and gallery, providing a showcase for artists as well as art agency services in China & Europe. Working out of the gallery space at Koppenplatz in the heart of Berlin, the foundation offers a professional platform for cross-cultural communication between China and Europe with a focus on contemporary Chinese art. Promoting both established and emerging artists, Migrant Birds provides gallery spaces for exhibitions in Beijing and Berlin, an artist-in-residence program, regular talks and lectures, as well as support in liaising with Museums, universities, private institutions and more.

This catalogue is published on the occasion of Luo Yang’s exhibition organized by Migrant Bird Space Berlin and curated by Lu Mei.

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