Julieta Aranda

This is a short text, reflecting on administration as power over life (“husbandry”), on the horrors that the male gaze inflicts over both women and men, and on what masculinities could be if they were only allowed to flourish… (link in bio) #efluxjournal #masculinities

As of today, many of the artists participating in the Venice biennale main exhibition “In Minor Keys” have withdrawn from consideration for the “visitor lion”, together with several national pavilions…. For the full list@of signatures, link in bio. #visitorlion #venicebiennale2026 #efluxnotes #e_flux /notes/6783494/statement-of-withdrawal-from-visitor-lion-awards

I am very excited to announce, that the publication ‚Labor Lab‘ is now out in the world and in the book stores, published by @spectorbooks co-edited by @asya_yaghmurian This book explores the human body—from hormonal and photographic perspectives—as both a political instrument and a site of knowledge production. ‚Labor Lab‘ is an experimental photo series in which liquid hormonal substances are applied directly to exposed photographic negatives, triggering chemical reactions within the photo emulsion that are later developed into large-format prints in the darkroom. Through this photochemical “hack,” the series produces portraits of hormones—the substances that underpin connection, reproduction, sex, sleep, hunger, gender, ageing, growth, contraception, and abortion. The photographs transform these intimate bodily experiences into an aesthetically tangible and accessible form, opening them up to interpretation and debate. The volume includes four essays by contributors who took part in the interdisciplinary discussions that preceded and accompanied the first exhibition of Labor Lab at the Schering Stiftung in 2024. Texts by Esther Leslie, Margarida Mendes, Jeannie Moser, Heiko Stoff, Asya Yaghmurian @esther.foggyplace @margarida___mendes Exchange with: Julieta Aranda, Sasha Berens, Gerit Bünnig, Nelly Furmann, Dehlia Hannah, Ulrike Juda, Christina Landbrecht, Esther Leslie, Jeannie Moser,  Katja Naie, Amina Nolte, Askan Sepahvand, Dana Stechow @julietaranda @badrobinberlin @ashkan_sepahvand_artist @wandererabovethemist Graphic Design: Pascal Storz @pascalstorz Rerproductions: Trevor Good @tgoodgood Exhibition Fotos: Timo Ohler Copyediting: Moira Barrett @moir.ii Thank you to: Frank Bartsch Sabine Brunkhorst, Astrid Busch, Jutta v Falkenhausen, Alexandra Hackelsberger, Sebastian Louis, Adrien Missika, Bathylle Missika, Claudia Righini, Nadim Samman, Schering Stiftung @sabinebrunckhorst @sammlung.hackelsberger @scheringstiftung @adrien_missika Supported by the Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion Berlin #spectorbooks #laborlab #leipzigerbuchmesse @gutenbergbeuys

At a playful exhibition at Konschthal Esch, Luxembourg, new media artist David Claerbout talks to fellow artist Julieta Aranda about letting meaning grow slowly in the viewer – and teases the notion of collecting a video 1000 years long. 🔗 in bio, their conversation is now online! 
And go see David’s masterful exhibition “Five Hours, Fifty Days, Fifty Years” at Konschthal Esch before it closes this Sunday! Image: Still from David Claerbout, The woodcarver and the forest, 2025 #spikeartmagazine

Leon has a birthday tomorrow. I remember waiting for him 10 years ago… this means I have been a lion tamer for a decade! Time really flies…. Welcome to the double digits! #leonaranda #firstdecade

Beginning with her own reflections on an upbringing in Mexico, Julieta Aranda @julietaranda looks at masculinity across Latin America as caught in its own cycle of perpetuating violence and destruction—the only way it can (poorly) express freedom and possibility. What would it mean for men to be capable of birthing worlds, asks Aranda, rather than only defending and controlling them? Read the essay at e-flux Journal 159 “Masculinities.” Link in bio. Images: [1] Mexico City Earthquake, September 19, 1985. Nuevo León apartment building in Tlatelolco. License: Public Domain. [2] Julieta Aranda at 14 (left), in México City. [3] Feminicidios en Ciudad Juárez, Crosses erected where the corpses of eight women were found in 1996. License: Public Domain. [4] Seahorse giving birth.

And just like that, we have a new cat…. (For @_ixel_ ) #leonaranda

Wise words for the new year, from my most important person (if the meaning eludes you, let me know)…. #leonaranda #2026

Here is to a 2026 full of love and all good things…. #2026 #hny

This issue of e-flux journal is very important to me -some years ago we put out two issues on “feminisms”….and it is now time to look again into the cesspool of prescriptive/normative gender… (I also have a text in this issue, starting to look into the production of war… more to come about that soon). E-flux journal Issue 159: “Masculinities” with Tareq Baconi, Jasmine Amussen, Maxi Wallenhorst, Klaus Theweleit, Marius Babias, Clemens von Wedemeyer, McKenzie Wark, Ingo Niermann, Fahim Amir, Julieta Aranda, and Mary Walling Blackburn The “manosphere” is once again having a moment. Since the term appeared sometime during the 2008 financial crisis, its breadth and influence have only grown. Like other ideological vortexes that prey on alienated subjects, its appeal comes from its ability to make conformity and bootlicking look like provocation. The internet has made its tendrils hyperefficient, but the crisis isn’t new. Masculinity has always functioned as a synonym for power itself, for patriarchy, for an ancien régime of established authority that never fully recedes. The question isn’t whether there is a crisis of masculinity, but whether analyses of it—from the left or the right—can escape the twin traps of fascist reaction and utopian fantasy. #masculinities #efluxjournal

Dear Berlin friends, it is that time of the year. On December 24th, we will be hosting our annual Orphan Christmas Dinner, for friends without a family dinner to join. Please let me know if you want to come, children are welcome!