PETUNIA #3 IS NOW AVAILABLE
Pétunia presents artists' proposals and texts in French or English. Pétunia's
issues are organised around subjective emergencies. Pétunia avoids
using author's texts as illustrations of a main topic chosen by the chief
editors. There is no editorial or publisher's statement. Each issue will be
autonomous, and does not connect with territorial issues and current matters
or trends. There are no chapters or sections, but diverse textual forms, from
theoretical texts to diary entries to pure fiction or comics, mostly concerning
contemporary art.
The layout of Pétunia will be an important part of each
issue; its graphic design will be very present and proclaimed. Pétunia wants
to bean unclassified object that paradoxically affirms a strong identity in
focusing foremost on the work of women critics, curators, artists...
From this perspective, Pétunia is a feminist publication playing the game of
affirmative action, as a response to the constant imbalance of the role and
place of women in the art world. Pétunia also reactivates — hopefully with
nostalgia and humour — the forms of ideological engagement of women
regarding art and critical production, while enriching its view of three
decades of “women studies”, “black studies”, post - colonial studies and, of
course, post - feminist studies .
Publisher : Dorothée Dupuis
Chief Editors : Lili Reynaud Dewar, Valerie Chartrain
Copy Editor : Jeanne Alechinsky
Distribution : Motto distribution
Web site : VLC.