Chiara Moioli

Mousse Magazine #94–Winter 2026 features a cover by Gabrielle Goliath (@gabriellegoliath ) and contributions from Petrit Halilaj (@xixellojme ), Danh Vo (@votrungkydanh ), Forensic Architecture (@forensicarchitecture ), Eyal Weizman (@eyal_weizman ), Nour Abuzaid (@nourabuzaid ), Elizabeth Breiner (@_elbr ), Zoé Samudzi (@babywasu ), Edward W. Said, Shumon Basar (@shumonbasar ), Dani Blanga Gubbay (@blangagubbay ), Colectivo Los Ingrávidos (@zonaingravida ), KJ Abudu (@kj_abudu ), Yvonne Rainer, Caterina Molteni (@caterinamolteni ), Noémie Degen (@nono_dgn ), Simon Jaton (@simo.n.n ), Salomé Burstein (@salomeburstein ), COUSIN (@cousin_collective ), Filipa Ramos (@filipaaaaaaaaaaa ), Thomas Eggerer (@thomaseggerer2019 ), Jochen Klein, Kari Rittenbach, M Palani Kumar (@chempkumar ), Shripad Sinnakaar (@shripadsinnakaar ), Tobias Pils, and Travis Jeppesen (@travisjeppesen ). @moussemagazine

Stephanie LaCava’s (@stephanielacava ) “Nymph” (@versobooks , 2025) is the final chapter of a trilogy of novels (“The Superrationals,” 2020; “I Fear My Pain Interests You,” 2022) nodding at the controversial—as much as fictionalized—trope of the “Young-Girl.” “Nymph” tells the story of Bathory, an elusive girl named after a blend of black metal and myth—“because a good cover is lore.” Bath reads people on the spot. She’s a deep empath, possibly a dark empath. The novel moves fluently between the lines of textbook DSM-5 psychiatry and cheap TikTok therapy gurus. LaCava’s narration has a rhythm that feels incantatory, sentences read almost like a spell. Find an exclusive preview and a conversation with the author by Chiara Moioli (@imsoemptyilikememes ) ahead of the book release on October 14, 2025.

In occasione della Giornata Mondiale delle Malattie Rare, lo scorso sabato 28 febbraio, con Show Your Stripes abbiamo corso 64 km lungo la pista AbbracciaMi per sostenere la ricerca del Malattie Rare Center del @policlinicomilano . È stata una giornata intensa, e vogliamo ringraziarvi tutti per aver partecipato, corso con noi e sostenuto il progetto. Show Your Stripes non si ferma: continuiamo a lavorare per dare visibilità alle malattie rare e supportare la ricerca. Nel frattempo, se vuoi contribuire, puoi acquistare la t-shirt al link in bio oppure fare una donazione libera qui: IBAN: IT21Z0623001628000044500716 Intestato a Runaway Milano ASD Causale: donazione progetto Show Your Stripes Ancora grazie di cuore da tutte le zebre!! 📸 📹 @_notaaryan_

Sabato 4 ottobre, con Show Your Stripes, abbiamo corso per sostenere la ricerca del Malattie Rare Center del @policlinicomilano . È stato emozionante, e vogliamo ringraziarvi tutti per aver partecipato. Un grazie speciale alla Dottoressa Francesca Menni, a @wamiwater , @dole_ita , e @skossabeer . Show Your Stripes non si ferma: siamo già al lavoro per una nuova community run. Nel frattempo, se vuoi sostenere la ricerca del Malattie Rare Center, puoi farlo acquistando la t-shirt prodotta per il format al link in bio, oppure con una donazione libera al Policlinico. Qui i dati: versamento sul Conto Corrente Bancario IBAN IT21Z0623001628000044500716 Intestato a Runway Milano ASD Causale: donazione progetto Show your Stripes Ancora grazie di cuore da tutte le zebre, e a prestissimo. Photo: @diodoone

Cabinet presents OPERA A huge thank you to everyone who made Sanna Helena Berger’s @sannahelenaberger solo show “OPERA”—which ran in our spaces from April 3 to 6, 2025—possible, and to everyone who came to see it. Endless gratitude to Sanna and her galleries: Shahin Zarinbal @shahin_zarinbal , Matteo Cantarella @matteocantarella , and Philipp Zollinger @philippzollinger . To the curator, Chiara Moioli @imsoemptyilikememes , for her vision and care. Simone Malanca @demetrio_mese , Iacopo Francieri @iaco994 , and Nicola Narbone @nicola_narbone —thank you making it all come together. And finally thank you to Giorgia Di Tria @giorgia.ditria for these installation photos. We had a great deal of fun. Grazie.

“What does it mean when we say that fiction has more than meets the eye? It might suggest that, as writer and artist Pierre Guyotat had it, we must ‘try in jolts, so awkward, to take heart.’” ~ The Fiction Issue, Mousse 90–Winter 2025 Guest editors: #RosannaMcLaughlin, Skye Arundhati Thomas (@skyita ), Izabella Scott (@izabella.z.scott ) With: @makenna_good @eileen.myles @pipadam @elviawilk @emilylabarge @meruanelina @office_for_soft_architecture @mike1234567891011121314151617 @bighedva @kalladomcdowell @est_elle_hoy____ @coelocanthe @belladodie @l_cy_v_s #MichaelLandy #RZBaschir #PretiTaneja #SimoneForti @celia.dovell.bell @travisjeppesen #GeetanjaliShree @ad_cio #CaoKou @stephanielacava #EvelynTaoChenWang @olivia.sudjic @macagomezbarris29 #SaraAbouGhazal @atelier_dell_errore_

“Undeterred by a truth too intolerable to franchise, Bob channels what he cannot overcome—a prankish craft beguiling the agents of adversity; an eventuality that his fancied citizenry in the realm of the fits strives to forestall. Dreading existence might escape him, he commits to writing as an act of suspension, an exercise in integration in which a desert of stony words is made to bloom, exclamation marks climax, dots and commas writhe. Little paragraphs Band-Aid it all together day in, day out. ‘De🅰️th, not s3️⃣x, is the last mystique.’* Checkmate that.” Published alongside the 2022 exhibition “Flanagan’s Wake” curated by Sabrina Tarasoff (@666_flags ) at Kristina Kite Gallery (@kristinakitegallery ), Los Angeles, “Fun to be De🅰️d” is the first comprehensive collection of Bob Flanagan’s poetry. Edited by Sabrina Tarasoff, the anthology includes contributions by Dodie Bellamy (@belladodie ), Jack Skelley (@helterskelley ), Sheree Rose (@msrosebush ), David Trinidad, Dennis Cooper, and myself. “The Kid is the Man,” 1978 “The Wedding of Everything,” 1983 “Slave Sonnets,” 1986 “F♈️ck Journal,” 1987 “A Taste of Honey” (with David Trinidad), 1990 “The Book of Medicine,” unfinished manuscript * Linda S. Kauffman, “Bad Girls and Sick Boys: Fantasies in Contemporary Art and Culture” (Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1998), 35. #bobflanagan

Bodies amaze me in being capable of the most sublime and terrifying things altogether. Mousse 85, Fall 2023–an issue about healing, and letting go. On the cover: #DonaldRodney

“There’s no mainstream to reward you.”—Dodie Bellamy Mousse #82, Winter 2023 is OUT NOW Cover story: the first historical survey on #AnitaSteckel, the unapologetic New York artist who tested the limits of bourgeois etiquette by adopting openly erotic imagery as subject matter of her work. The feature comes with a superlative essay by Wendy Vogel (@wendylvogel ) and a fiery conversation between Betty Tompkins (@bettytompkinsartnew ), Dodie Bellamy (@belladodie ) and #RachelMiddleman. In the literary section, ontological incertitude pervades the art-world fictionalized by Estelle Hoy (@est_elle_hoy____ ), who ponders extinction, capitalism, and liberation in a “Mentor-Futurism” manifesto, while Amy Gerstler’s (@tapir567 ) 1987 Hanuman Books reprint of “Primitive Man” tells of the waxing and waning of being twelve and not fitting in at Sabbath School. #CallySpooner investigates temporalities that defy the standardizations driving individual and societal bodies to perform toward a metric-oriented future in the second iteration of her performance-centered column “A Hypothesis of Resistance.” Elisa R. Linn (@elisa_r_linn ) and Lennart Wolff (@lennart_wolff ) probe Bruno Serralongue’s (@bruno_serralongue ) media outlets. #EvaBaroisDeCaevel on #SeyniAwaCamara’s practice, one relating to a global tale made of many tales, some emblematic of the stories Western art history needs to feed its narrative of non-Western artworks. #SohrabMohebbi converses with Melike Kara (@melike_kara ) about the Kurdish diaspora and the struggle for memories and narratives to evade oblivion. Book reviews are penned by Jenna Sutela (@jennasutela ). Tidbits include: Jordan/Martin Hell (@martinhellexists ) by Alex Bennett (@syllabub_bennett ); Scott Covert (@the_dead_supreme ) by Sabrina Tarasoff (@badgalsabriri ); Erin Calla Watson (@ergonomic_love_story ) by Jennifer Piejko (@jenniferpiejko ); #StephaneMandelbaum by Krzysztof Kościuczuk (@krzypsztof ); Abbas Zahedi (@abbzah ) by Alessandro Rabottini (@alessandro.rabottini ); #GeorgeTourkovasilis by #NicolasLinnert; B. Ingrid Olson (@bbbingaaa ) by Brit Barton (@britbarton ); Dala Nasser (@dala_nasser.pdf ) by Amy Jones (@e_amyj ).

“But as a life strategy it can be a sorry reduction.” [@elviawilk , “Extinction Burst,” 2022] ~ Cover: #MichelMajerus, “Mom Block Nr. 67,” 1998. © @michelmajerusestate . Courtesy: Private Collection ~ #MousseMagazine issue 80, Summer 2022

“Remember that day back Way back when there was nothing Maybe that day only made sense If there is something” ~ #RoseSalane (@that_prick_rose ), “The Portal” (detail), 2018. Courtesy: the artist and @carlos_ishikawa ~ #MousseMagazine issue 77, Fall 2021

“Hey me in twenty years Does your milk still Turn to rot too soon? Do you still hoard souvenirs And make them mirrors Of sentimental veneer?” ~ #JulieBecker, “Whole (Projector),” 1999 ~ #MousseMagazine issue 76, Summer 2021