We’re very happy to welcome you for our 10th issue-anniversary of EDIT:. This edition is dedicated to Swedish artists and we will celebrate this at the Institut suédois in Paris!

In this issue we will focus on five Swedish artists. Curator Daria de Beauvais presents the astonishing young and successful artist Nathalie Djurberg who plays with humour, sensuality, fairy tales, nature and horror in her videos and animation films.

I met the Swedish artists Jenny Källman and Anna Bjerger at the opening of their show Instantanés/Peintures photographie, curated by Marion Alluchon at the Institut suédois. Their beautiful, sensitive and powerful photos and paintings share the same visual language. You can find an interview with the artists in this issue.

And last but not least we will talk about Forests seen through the eyes of the Swedish artists Tora Windahl and Björn Larsson who each in their own way offer a poetic and compelling vision of this very Swedish theme.

Also, at the occasion of the exhibition of her series Rewind at the Galerie Ouizeman in Paris, Marion Alluchon meets the Finnish artist Nina Korhonen who lives and works in Stockholm.

by Saskia Ooms

Apart from our Swedish input, we’re proud to present in Portfolio the new series of the photographer Guillaume Coadou. Zoe Simon will also show a glimpse of the wonderful surprising book “The Jewish bride” by the Dutch photographer Jeremy Stigter. Our editor Pierre Antonelli wrote an essay about the concept of family throughout some works of Henrik Ibsen, David Cronenberg and Richard Avedon.

In our section EDIT:SCOPE Antonelli visited the Art fair 2009 in Basel and checked if it survived the economic crisis. Anastasia Simoniello reviews the exhibition of the Iranian artist Shirin Neshat at the Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont in Paris and Christina Vatsella brings us Philippe Parreno’s exhibition at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris.

In PUBLICATIONS Julien Voinot reviews Joseph Beuys published by Hazan and Laurent Grasso by Les Presses Réel.

Enjoy our new “Swedish” EDIT: ! Mycket nöje!
 

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The Launching of the new EDIT: takes place at the Institut suedois in Paris on Thursday November 12 at 7 pm. We will moderate a discussion with the artists Tora Windahl and Bjorn Larsson at the opening of their show Skog/Forêt.
The exhibition is on view from November 13, 2009 until January, 24 2010.