We spend around a third of our lives sleeping and, luckily, we dream on a daily basis, although most of the time we don’t remember what we’ve dreamed about. We have several dreams a night, long dreams and short dreams in which we can be the prince, the princess and the dragon without prejudice or problem. EXIT 85 focuses indeed on sleepers and dreams. From the places meant for sleeping to the vulnerability and fragility that sleeping implies, to the poetics and aesthetics of sleep.
EXIT 85 Sleepers and Dreamers gathers two central texts by researcher Sharon Silwinski and EXIT’s founder, Rosa Olivares. Silwinski addresses a political dimension of sleep, in which sleeping could be considered as resistance to progress, but constitutes as well a right in itself. The text is illustrated with photographs by Oscar Rejlander, Niv Acosta and Fannie Sosa, Magnus Wennman and Sam Taylor-Johnson. On the other hand, Olivares proposes an aesthetic journey around the bed and dreams with photographs by Luis González Palma, Donovan Wylie, Sophie Calle, Elliott Erwitt and Félix González-Torres. EXIT 85’s dossiers look at those who sleep out in the streets with Francis Alÿs and Lars Klingenberg; also to those who do it at the beach, as we see on Carlos Pérez-Siquier’s and Tadao Cern’s pictures; and to those who sleep at cafes, as Guillaume Hebert shows. Through photographs taken by Annaleen Louwes, María Friberg and Natacha Lesueur, we approach a more conceptual dimension of the sleeper. And, finally, Ferdinando Scianna will guide us through indoor and outdoor spaces in which sleepers peacefully rest, in black and white.
In Portfolio, the section in which we give space to the most interesting photographers of the new generations, we present Sonsoles Company, César Dezfuli, Julio Galeote, Nicolas K Feldmeyer and Erinn Springer.
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Editorial:
Rosa Olivares. We, the sleepers
Texts:
Sharon Silwinski. The right to sleep, perchance to dream
Rosa Olivares. On beds, journeys, dreams and shipwrecks
Central theme artists:
Niv Acosta y Fannie Sosa, Francis Alÿs, Nygårds Karin Bengtsson, Mark van den Brink, Sophie Calle, Tadao Cern, Elliott Erwitt Maria Friberg, Luis González Palma, Félix González-Torres, Guillaume Hebert, Lars Klingenberg, Natacha Lesueur, Annaleen Louwes, Carlos Pérez-Siquier, Oscar Rejlander, Ferdinando Scianna, Sam Taylor-Johnson, Magnus Wennman and Donovan Wilye.
Portfolio artists:
Sonsoles Company, César Dezfuli, Julio Galeote, Nicolas K Feldmeyer and Erinn Springer.
EXIT Magazine is published four times a year: January, April, July and October.
About EXIT
A quarterly bilingual (Spanish/English) thematic magazine on contemporary photography and visual arts. Founded in 1999, EXIT is an international publication on contemporary photography and culture. Each issue revolves around a specific theme that brings together the photographic work of the most compelling artists of our days combined with the texts of renowned specialists in the field. The unique contemporary perspective and sophisticated design that EXIT offers has been awarded with the prestigious Kraszna Krauss Prize, in 2003 and the Lucie Award to the Best Photography Magazine of the Year, in 2015. In 2020 we changed the format and logo but keeping the essence of the magazine, we also launched the Portfolio section in which we give visibility to emerging photographers. A fresh and agile section that works as an autonomous capsule with respect to the monographic content of the rest of the publication.
