Somewhere between Mars and Jupiter, there is an asteroid called (90) Antiope. Its peculiarity is that it is not one object but two — a binary system, two intertwined bodies of roughly equal mass revolving around a shared centre of gravity. It is an elegant piece of celestial mechanics, and it is also the organising principle of a French art magazine.
90Antiope, directed by Éric Perceval and published biannually out of Paris, is built entirely around the concept of duality. Every piece of editorial content in the magazine is co-designed and co-signed by two creators from different disciplines. A photographer and a sound artist. A fashion designer and a filmmaker. A writer and a visual artist. The pairings are deliberate but unpredictable, designed to generate what Perceval calls "unforeseen encounters" — collaborations that might seem opposed at first glance but produce something neither party could have made alone.
The result is a magazine that reads less like a collection of features and more like a series of experiments. Fashion sits next to experimental sound. Photography confronts visual art. The narratives are woven in two voices and four hands, and the effect is genuinely disorienting in the best possible way — you are never quite sure which discipline you are looking at, because the boundaries between them have been deliberately dissolved.
Physically, the magazine is a substantial object: over 250 pages, printed on two different paper stocks with a Pantone accent colour, oversized at 240×320mm. Contributors have included filmmaker Mati Diop, digital artist Cécile B. Evans, photographer Julie Beaufils, writer Dennis Cooper, and musician Félicia Atkinson, among many others. The text is in English, which gives it international reach despite its Parisian roots.
It is a young publication and still relatively unknown outside the specialist magazine world, which is precisely the kind of discovery that makes indie publishing worth paying attention to. In a landscape where most magazines are organised by subject — this is a fashion magazine, this is a music magazine, this is a photography magazine — 90Antiope refuses the categories entirely. It asks what happens when two creative practices collide, and then prints whatever emerges from the wreckage. The asteroid it is named after has been orbiting for millions of years. The magazine, one hopes, is just getting started.
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