Tide Magazine - N°8

Spicing Up The Story - Page 6

This transformation of an everyday, intimate object into a garment lies at the heart of Antwerp-based designer Julie Kegels' design language. A "puzzle" of influences, ideas, and dreams, Kegels' work comes together in collections that are both sharp and playful, deliberate yet effortless - making her a go-to for many of Paris' leading stylists, even at such a young age.

What's the secret behind the LVMH Prize finalist's success? She always adds a little something to spice up the story. How? Read on to find out.

With Julie Kegels

An Ordinary Talk - Page 57

It seems Erwin Wurm no longer needs an introduction. Having reshaped the way we perceive sculpture today, his work exists in a space in between the absurd and the existential, catharsis and embarrassment, the narrow and the inflated, the quiet and the loud, the ephemeral and the timeless.
What makes his artworks so instantly recognisable is undoubtedly a genuinely human approach to art. His work is not created with a fixed purpose in mind; it is meant to be experienced, observed, and ultimately inhabited — until we ourselves become part of it, left wondering: who am I? What am I doing? 
We met in person during the 61st Venice Biennale at Museo Fortuny — a 15th century palazzo — where his new exhibition, Dreamers, is on display amidst Mariano Fortuny’s dresses, draped fabrics, and soulful, crumbling walls.

With Erwin Wurm

Of  Redaction - Page 44

Images - Ithai Schori
Style - Haidee Findlay-Levin

Bad and Worse - Page 85

The first delusion of photography is that a single frame can hold the truth. We press the shutter. We capture a street in Tehran, a window in Paris, a face at duck. And we believe, against all evidence, that we have caught something that will not change when we look away. This is a beautiful delusion. It is also a firm and persistent falsehood. The photograph does not deliver the world. It delivers a single witness, and every witness is incomplete.

Images - Mohammad Gazhali
Words - Azadeh Zaferani

Morning News - Page 123

Images - Laura Sicouri
Style - Juliette Alleaume

In Search of Lost Taste - Page 22

For many years, I held dear a memory of the fried rice I would eat as a child. Cradled in a bowl, its  dense, golden yellow texture coated here and there with eggs whisked into a fluffy omelet, while deeper, almost amber tones marked the presence of lightly caramelized onions. I always gazed hungrily at the grains of rice on my spoon, soft on the inside and scorched on the outside. With each bite, a cloud of sweetness spread across my palate as I tasted the garlic, the dash of Maggi sauce, and the finally chopped chives. This recipe could not be simpler: it's more about making do with what's at hand - ideal for when both time and ingredients are lacking - than haute cuisine. And yet. For the longest time, this "make-do" dish remained an unreachable feat in my own personal culinary Hall of Frame.

Words - Emilie Laystary
Artworks - Dror Cohen

Tear Catcher - Page 132

The following pages delve into Yasmina's world, words, and art, beginning with the creation of a tear catcher. As the project came to a close, Hilal invited Beirut-based photographer Tanya Traboulsi to collaborate with her. It is through Traboulsi's perceptive lens that we encounter Yasmina, her tear catcher, and Beirut itself: its people, its landscape.

Artwork and Words - Yasmina Hilal
Images - Tanya Traboulsi

Idoles - Page 26

Images - Elizabeth Heltoft
Set Design - Rikke Wackerhausen

To See, Even in the Dark Times - Page 38

As time passes, darkness waxes and wanes - to the point of seeming cyclical. Perhaps we could invent something akin to a weather forecast for wars, aiming not only to predict conflicts (just as we predict the sky clouding over) but also to warn us of an impending outpouring of so-called intolerable, unbearable images that are to rain down on our frayed eyelids.

Words - Guillaume Blanc-Marianne

Rinse and Repeat - Page 100

The Theme of the 8th issue of TIDE is Delusion & Grace.
What do these notions evoke for you?

I'm deluded every time I start a project. And I attempt to give myself grace as I face its inevitable chaos. As I'm deeply dubious of meaningful making without at least a taste of delusion, the theme led me to consider what lies between: what comes after the exploration of delusion and before an extension of grace? 

Artworks and Words - Jewel Ham

Objects that Hold Time - Page 110

The images begin not in the studio but at a timber yard somewhere near the Scottish border. There are no sculptures here, no gallery, no context to explain who he is. Just a man among fellow wood, on a cold, bright day, somewhere in northern England. There is something different about images made between two people who know each other. You can feel the familiarity - in the angle, the patience, the willingness to let quiet moments be quiet. Ronan Mckenzie's images don't perform Mac Collins. They wait.

Artworks - Mac Collins
Images - Ronan Mckenzie
Words - Carine Harmand

A Sense of Style - Page 140

Images - Crista Leonard
Style - Vincent Pons

You Have Reached Your Destination - Page 150

"We have always counted ticket sales, but we have never counted tears. No bar graph exists, dataset, no archive of collective weeping in the dark, because there is no methodology for it, no one ever thought it worth measuring. 
But what if there were?" 

Words - Zahra Tavassoli Sea