Ties That Bind

Ties That Bind – Fictions, Orthodoxies and Interdependencies is an anthology that rethinks attachment and social power relations within family, state, friendship, identities and communities through passion, intoxication, exhaustion, desire, devotion, aid and intimacy in private and public spheres.

Using a decentralised editorial method based on distributed agency, young artists in the FUTURES photography network were invited to suggest untranslated poetry and prose in any language that responded to these overarching questions of codependency and reciprocity. A final selection was then edited by former director of Fotogalleriet Antonio Cataldo and artist and FUTURES nominee Nikhil Vettukattil, combined with six new photographic commissions by FUTURES artists.

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Contributors:

Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen selected by Carolina Tardin

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Rihards Bargais translated by Ieva Lešinska and chosen by Konstantin Zhukov

Chinnaswami Subramania Bharati selected and translated by Ilavenil Vasuky Jayapalan

Lene Berg translated by Olivia Lasky

Oles Berdnyk selected by Lesia Vasylchenko and translated by Yuri Tkacz

Mahmoud Darwish selected by Raisan Hameed

Ádám Fekete selected by Máté Bartha

Fayyaz Hashmi and Baghat Singh translated by Dee S. Sharma

Bjørn Hatterud translated by Diane Oatley

Ghassan Kanafani selected by Thana Faroq and translated by Suneela Mubayi

Emilia Petrakis selected by Rebecca Topakian and translated by Jackqueline Frost

Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida translated by Mariana Machado

Lope de Vega translated by and with a text by Pablo Lerma

Li Yinhe selected by Yao Yuan and translated by Tina Guo

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Photographic essays by:

Raisan Hameed

Luna Mahoux

Peter Pflüger

Julie Poly

Balázs Szigligeti 

Yao Yuan

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Design by: Hans Gremmen

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Editors: Nikhil Vettukattil & Antonio Cataldo

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