Et Alors? Magazine 19
Et Alors? Magazine is an online project in motion, co-created by female artist duo and lovers Fleur Pierets and Julian P. Boom, who’s work questions the mainstream understandings and the construction of the (gay) identity. Their conceptual self-portraits and staged scenes challenge the boundaries of gender and contemporary femininity through visual knowledge. In Et Alors? Magazine, Fleur & Julian publish their conversations with musicians, visual artists, writers and performers by whom they are inspired, and share artwork and locations that caught their eye.
Et Alors? Magazine is an online project in motion, co-created by female artist duo and lovers Fleur Pierets and Julian P. Boom, who’s work questions the mainstream understandings and the construction of the (gay) identity.
Their conceptual self-portraits and staged scenes challenge the boundaries of gender and contemporary femininity through visual knowledge.
In Et Alors? Magazine, Fleur & Julian publish their conversations with musicians, visual artists, writers and performers by whom they are inspired, and share artwork and locations that caught their eye.
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editorial<br />
Darlings,<br />
‘The one thing<br />
they all have<br />
in common is<br />
the ability to<br />
make our hearts<br />
beat a little<br />
faster with the<br />
promise of great<br />
possibilities.’<br />
The thing we like most about making and writing <strong>Et</strong> <strong>Alors</strong>?<br />
<strong>Magazine</strong> is that it’s a project in motion. A venture that keeps<br />
transforming and evolving in the same way that we do.<br />
In our first issue we started off with tons of photoshoots,<br />
interviews with close artist-friends and an eagerness to<br />
discover all the drag queens in this world. Along the process<br />
of writing and talking to people, however, we discovered that<br />
our heart lies with telling stories. Inspiring readers by telling<br />
the stories of inspirational people. Spreading the message<br />
that it’s okay to be or feel different, that a lot of people have<br />
been there and showing what good came out of that!<br />
Meanwhile, we too kept evolving - don’t worry, we still have a<br />
soft spot for drag queens - but with issue <strong>19</strong> in the making we<br />
took yet another slightly different approach to what we want<br />
to express by putting our thoughts online and bundling them<br />
into a magazine. Not only do we want to share the artist talks<br />
we had in the past few months, we also want to show you<br />
some amazing places we came across along the way. Places<br />
where artists went awol while creating their own unique<br />
world they call paradise.<br />
We kick off with Le Jardin d’Hélys, an experimental art place,<br />
created ages ago by an artist duo now in their seventies. We<br />
unexpectedly ran across the house and garden while passing<br />
through the smallest of places in France. Alain and Monique<br />
invited us in and gave us a grand tour of the house -one of<br />
the highlights being an installation covered in dust, cobwebs<br />
and it’s inhabitants. Monique passionately called it her ode to<br />
Louise Bourgeois.<br />
Furthermore we’ll show you which other artists we came<br />
across and inspired us. Sometimes just one picture,<br />
sometimes an entire series. Point is that we felt enthusiastic<br />
to share it with you.<br />
Alike the artist talks we had this summer. We spoke to Sarah<br />
Bettens, charismatic front woman of the international rock<br />
band K’s Choice, South-African artist Lebogang Mokgoko<br />
and writer Annelies Verbeke. The one thing they all have in<br />
common is the ability to make our hearts beat a little faster<br />
with the promise of great possibilities.<br />
Enjoy reading our <strong>19</strong>th issue of <strong>Et</strong> <strong>Alors</strong>? <strong>Magazine</strong> as much<br />
as we enjoyed assembling it. It comes from a good place.<br />
Keep safe, stay gorgeous,<br />
Fleur & Julian<br />
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