Modern Matter #21A 2025 theory of friends and strangers

of friends and strangers

post-memoir “I”

From ecstatic images of nightlife to abstract images made without a camera

filmmaking

Modern Matter #21A 2025 theory of friends and strangersThis edition unfolds across three registersSmall (170 100mm), Medium (200 270mm), and Large (305 540mm) where size is not merely a format but a framework. A works dimensions are inseparable from its impact: the compact draws us in, the measured offers legibility, the vast overpowers. As scale expands or contracts, so does our relationship to the object, the space, and the idea. Modern Matter is a biannual publication that records the ways in which new