Mousse

For more than twenty years, Ali Cherri (.cherri) has been pressing on the bruises of wounded bodies, both literal and figurative, in films, videos, ever-more elaborate sculptural installations, and comparatively delicate watercolors and diminutive works on paper. Cherri delves into experiences of pain, stress, loneliness, and ennui while exploring instances of cultural and environmental devastation, outright war, revolutionary upheaval, and stalemate.

This conversation between Cherri (.cherri) and Kaelen Wilson-Goldie, venturing into his plans for the third film in his trilogy devoted to the figure of the soldier, marks a new iteration of the collaboration between TextWork by and .

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The TextWork editorial program is developed with the support of the French Ministry of Culture.

Lea Porsager, OUTRAGEOUS INTIMACY (2025, Mousse Publishing)

Lea Porsager (), 2018 Honorary Mention for Arts at CERN’s Collide international residency award, works across text, film, sculpture, and photography, using fabulation and speculation to channel cosmologies shaped by science, politics, feminism, and esotericism into tactile, time-based forms.

Drawn to both physical and metaphysical energy, Porsager constructs installations and narratives that challenge binary thinking and linear time, inviting viewers into fields of entangled meanings.

Published by Mousse Publishing () OUTRAGEOUS INTIMACY delves into Porsager’s artistic practice, documenting her work with a particular focus on her earthworks, texts, and use of readymades. Far from explanatory, the book takes form as glossolalic outbursts, in which particles, bodies, and terrains alike turn into erogenous zones and sites of sensitization.

It introduces photographs by Porsager from her journeys through CERN between 2018 and 2025 as part of the Arts at CERN programme, and in connection with her postdoctoral research.

OUTRAGEOUS INTIMACY reproduces material from CERN’s archives, while also including a series of superimposed images drawn from Porsager’s visits across CERN’s sites. Together, these pages – replete with horns, tubes, wires, aluminium foil, concrete blocks, safety signs, magnets, maps, and more – form a layered visual (and tactile) essay of the artists’ sensitive observations, and how these materials, spaces, objects, and ideas influenced the conceptual and formal language of Porsager’s multidisciplinary works.

Mousse goes to Switzerland!

In Zurich, and Mousse returns at .ch with “After After Party,” the screening programme curated by Lucrezia Calabrò Visconti () and Barbara Casavecchia ().

Also during , join us for the book launch of “Mohamed Bourouissa – Pour Noubia” at schwarzescafé () following the conversation between artist Mohamed Bourouissa () and Yasmin Naderi Afschar (, co-director, ).

In Basel, find our new publications at , , and , including Mousse #96, a very special issue recording 20 years of Mousse.

Then follow ABC Basel on Wheels, our books-and-coffee truck traveling across the city throughout the week. Curated by Samuel Leuenberger () and Mousse Publishing, and commissioned by Basel Tourismus, ABC Basel brings Basel’s diverse art and cultural landscape to life. The book truck tour is powered by .

See you soon!

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Illustration by Paolo Gentili ()

Reflecting on the key exhibition “Like a Virgin” (2009) at , Serubiri Moses () retraces the curatorial practice of Bisi Silva (1962–2019) as a form of reparation grounded in a critical understanding of gender and ecological knowledges.

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“For Tiran Willemse (), the body is a container for history. [. . .] Willemse’s work is as future-facing as it is reminiscent, encouraging viewers to assess and struggle against their own corpo- real bondage.” Link in bio to read the piece by Donasia Tillery.

For the third year, and team up for presenting in Zurich “After After Party,” a screening programme hosted by .ch!

Curated by Lucrezia Calabrò Visconti () and Barbara Casavecchia (), who will accompany the showcase with a live reading, “After After Party” focuses on moments following collective celebration, as a ritual capable of uniting through both loss and joy.

AFTER AFTER PARTY
at Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich
June 13, 2026
H 16:00-19:00

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Works by Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz (), Kantarama Gahigiri (), Gabrielle Goliath (), Sara Leghissa (.leghissa), Lucia Martinez Garcia (.lux), Valentina Parati (), Giulia Piscitelli, Maryam Tafakory (), and Jonas Ulrich.

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Image credit: Lucia Martinez Garcia (.lux), “Flowing Water (Eau Vive)”, 2019 (videostill)

“Fiction has never been entertainment for me. It has been the work that I have done for most of my adult life. I believe that one of the principal ways in which we acquire, hold, and digest information is via narrative.” Link in bio to read Toni Morrison’s lecture for the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature, testifying to her powerful fabulation, at the core of Koyo Kouoh’s “In Minor Keys.”

Amy Jones () on how Ebun Sodipo’s () collages unfold in their own time, collapsing histories, cultural references, and realities through combination and material sedimentation. “Brought together in Sodipo’s works, these seemingly disparate fragments function as what Saidiya Hartman has termed ‘critical fabulations.’”

Tap the link in bio to read the piece from Mousse 95.