September

We are delighted to share the first issue of September, an artist-run annual print publication bringing together conceptual photography, cinema, architecture, philosophy, fiction and nonfiction, video art, and artist books, all devoted to a single subject.

Our first issue, ‘Map of Maps’, gathers nearly sixty artists and writers, including thirty newly commissioned texts, around the theme of archives. Thank you to every single contributor. This magazine is brimming to the seams with your insightful, provocative, touching, and surprising interpretations.

Across the issue, these responses take many forms and directions. Among them, Keisha Scarville’s intimate portraits of her father’s passport photographs—collaged, painted over, and repurposed to explore identity and belonging; Jeffrey Gibson’s intervention in the Brooklyn Museum’s archive, where he places moccasins on a colonial statue; and Bernardo Mosquera’s curatorial and critical essay considering the archive through a Brazilian Candomblé perspective, in which past, present, and future happen at once, moving away from dominant Western forms of linear time and considering how this shapes archiving in both personal and institutional realms.

These are just a few of the many perspectives gathered in ‘Map of Maps.’ Check out the first issue for the work of all of our contributors, which we are deeply grateful to have had the honor to publish.

‘Map of Maps’ is the product of sixteen months of hard work. September is a true labor of love and obsessiveness, something at the root of the archival impulse in all of us.

Thank you to Antiga Grafiche in Verona for the gorgeous printing.

And last but not least, we are deeply grateful to September’s designer @brianpaullamotte
@lamotte_studios

‘Maps of Maps’ has four covers. This one: Sara Cwynar, Red Rose II, 2020, 24 × 30 inches, archival pigment print mounted on Dibond. Courtesy the artist and Cooper Cole, Toronto, and The Approach, London. @cwynars @coopercole @approachgallery
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