Reflecting on humanity’s impact on nature amid environmental collapse, this creative piece explores the unfolding consequences of economies based on extraction and exhaustion. Through mythology and poetic reflections, it critiques capitalism’s reckless ambition. The text uses world-building as a tool for imagining alternative futures, with art as a means to explore these possibilities. It asks: How can we adopt a critical, imaginative stance toward this crisis? How can we learn from and with nature, embracing interconnectedness and sustainable visions for the future? It calls for a collective reimagining and unlearning, urging us to listen to nature’s warnings and shift toward practices that that restore balance and strengthen our connection to the earth.

(January 2025)

Texts: Despoina Tzanou, Nazlı Yayla, Sharmila Wood

Translation: Çağla Özbek

Catalog Coordination: Aybüke Sanuç

Proofreading: Aybüke Sanuç, Nazlı Yayla

Photos: Kayhan Kaygusuz

Design: Gürem Özcan

Printing: 12. Matbaa

Luis Coquenão’s work explores the balance between control and unpredictability, inspired by natural forces like water, gravity, and erosion. His process captures fleeting moments of change, evoking the fluidity of existence. Reflecting on cycles of transformation and the tension between permanence and flux, Coquenão’s work brings to mind The Visible and the Invisible by Maurice Merleau-Ponty. Revealing deeper layers of existence, the artist suggests that the visible can hint at the unseen, reflecting the world’s continuous state of becoming.

Artist: Luís Coquenão

Writer : Despoina Tzanou 

Translation: Eva Morón

Publisher: Galería Fernandez-Braso, Madrid (2024/2025)

Printing: Gráficas IMTRO

Issue 5

Editors: Alexia Alexandropoulou, Ariana Kalliga, Caterina Stamou, Despoina Tzanou

Invited Contributors: KOH, Surplus Cinema, Mikhail Karikis, Lily Markaki

Design: Maita Chatziionnidou, Loopo Studio

Printing
Pletsas K., Kardari Z., OE

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By delving into intimate experiences and emotions, this project challenges societal norms imposed on the body, particularly regarding love, tenderness, anxiety, and pain. It delves into the mind-body connection, revealing resistance against societal expectations and explores how individuals navigate and confront these pressures in deeply personal ways.

Artist: Nell Brookfield

Editor & Contributor: Despoina Tzanou 

Contributor: Figgy Guyver (Assistant Editor at Tate London)

Designer: Louise Camu (Reference Point, London)

Folder Printing: Dot Studio, London

Printing: Pureprint, London

Event launch: Reference Point, London

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Creative text for Love Spells and Rituals for Another world, Publication Edited by Lilly Markaki and convened in collaboration with Lisa Moravec, Royal Holloway, University of London, PGR-led initiative.

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Artist: Petra Cortright

Editor & Contributor: Despoina Tzanou

Contributor: Wade Wallerstein

Design by: Tiago Carneiro

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Publication by DOW Curatorial Collective

Artists: Catherine Biocca, Byzantia Harlow, Pil and Galia Kollectiv, Katharina Ludwig, Luke Overin and Sophie Rogers

Co-Editors: Celine Roblin, Angela Pipo, Duarte Sequeira, Despoina Tzanou