Door hun artistieke praktijk heen creëren deze kunstenaars vormen van beschutting tegen uitwissing en geweld. En ontwikkelen zij strategieën om te overleven in vijandige werelden, met behoud van tederheid, intimiteit en queer mogelijkheden. In het aanzien van ineenstortende realiteiten vormen hun werken een bundeling van hoop: een teder manifest van verzet, veerkracht en gedeelde menselijkheid.
Het is een queer benadering van de publicatie op alle niveaus: via het ontwerp en de paginaoriëntatie, de manier van drukken, en de redactionele aanpak. Waarbij beelden en visueel onderzoek van de kunstenaars worden gecombineerd met gedichten.
A Spell Bundle – Manifesting Queer Futurity is een vervolg op de gelijknamige tentoonstelling, geproduceerd door FOTODOK bij Clublokaal, als onderdeel van de 12e editie van BredaPhoto Festival (11 september – 25 oktober 2026).
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CO-PUBLICATIE
FOTODOK brengt A Spell Bundle – Manifesting Queer Futurity samen uit met co-uitgever METEØRØ EDITIONS, opgericht door Pablo Lerma. Samen zochten we naar de vorm van het boek en METEØRØ EDITIONS zorgt voor de distributie van het boek via meteoroeditions.com.
INFO
Beelden en tekst: Donja Nasseri, Ebun Sodipo, Julius Thissen, Nayara Leite en S*an D. Henry-Smith
Curatoren tentoonstelling: Nayara Leite en Daria Tuminas
Redactie publicatie: Daria Tuminas en Pablo Lerma
Uitgever: FOTODOK & METEØRØ EDITIONS
Ontwerp: Studio Sara Cristina Moser
Drukker: Königsdruck Berlin
Lettertypen: Adelphe Trouble van Bye Bye Binary en Serial B van DumDum Studio
ISBN: 9789083529820
Jaar: 2026, eerste editie
Oplage: 500
Pagina’s: 124
Papier: myStardream silver, Ovol Papier
Afmetingen: 10,5 x 17,5 cm
Binding: Perfect Binding
Taal: Engels
Prijs: € 25
Julius Thissen (b. 1993, the Netherlands) lives and works in Arnhem. His work explores themes of community, representation, and gender in relation to dominant power structures. With a background as a performance artist, Thissen’s photographic practice focuses on narratives that explore the thin line between success and failure. These themes are closely connected to today’s performance-driven culture and the influence of societal expectations on human behaviour. Rooted in his own personal experiences as a transmasculine person, Thissen’s work challenges the restrictive and often binary narratives imposed on transgender and queer individuals.
Ebun Sodipo (b. 1993, UK) works across sculpture, installation, writing, performance, and collage. Using research and storytelling as critical tools, Sodipo seeks to subvert notions of race, gender, sexuality, and power as shaped by history and its visual cultures. Guided by Black feminist thought, her practice employs collage and fabulation to create real and imagined narratives of Black trans women’s presence, embodiment, and interiority across past, present, and future. Drawing from archives of found digital imagery, she reconstructs and reinterprets social and art histories through assemblage, exploring themes of aspiration, intimacy, gender euphoria, desire, fantasy, and adornment.
Nayara Leite (b. 1989, Brazil / Norway) is an artist and writer based in Bergen, Norway. Her multidisciplinary practice spans research, archives, and storytelling, focusing on LGBTQ+ experiences in Brazil, Norway, and beyond. Working with text, film, photography, performance, and installation, Leite combines personal narratives, political discourse, and archival materials to explore migration, identity, resistance, and belonging. Inspired by contemporary liberation movements and activist practices, her work has increasingly incorporated intersectional perspectives. For Leite, collaboration is a foundational part of her practice; alongside her autonomous work, she forms one half of the artist duo Nayara Leite & Kaeto Sweeney.
Donja Nasseri (b. 1990, Germany) examines the shifting relationship between tradition and change, exploring intertwined histories and narratives that shape identity, trauma, and collective memory. Drawing on materials from museums, archives, and communities, she reactivates historical and personal narratives through translation, fragmentation, and recontextualisation. Conceived as a form of visual and material archaeology, her practice brings past and present into dialogue while addressing questions of colonialism, restitution, and the politics of memory. Working across photography, collage, sculpture, sound, language, and installation, Nasseri creates layered works that resist singular interpretation and foreground multiple perspectives, voices, and temporalities.
S*an D. Henry-Smith (b. 1992, USA / the Netherlands) is a poet, photographer, and interdisciplinary artist based in Amsterdam. Their practice explores Black and queer diasporic forms of collaboration rooted in experimentalism, improvisation, and transdisciplinarity. Working across photography, sound, performance, publishing, and writing, they investigate the possibilities of collective expression and embodied knowledge. Alongside their visual and literary practice, Henry-Smith performs music under the name sunchoke and as part of several collaborative musical projects.
