AR April 2021: Underground

Far from being a blank or inconsequential space, the underground is a critical and contested site, full of foundations, infrastructures, and junk; hidden architectures tucked neatly underneath the surface. Excavated, extracted from, dug up and bored through, the underground is made messy so that things on the surface can be kept clean. This issue, we peel back the skin of the earth to look at what goes on under

Keith Arnatt digs himself into a hole, progressively disappearing into the earth
An artwork by Ana Mendieta in which hands and bodies are carved into mounds of dried earth

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