The Autumn / Winter 2025–26 Issue of Apartamento is here!
Louis Fratino’s Richardson Street living room appears on the cover of this issue of Apartamento, one of only five in our history to feature a painting. He speaks with Jordan Weitzman from his studio in Greenpoint, where the longtime friends invert the standard interview: Jordan settles in as subject matter while Louis meditates on the urgency of the everyday in his work.
Isamaya Ffrench joins critic and certified ‘Lindsay Lohan scholar’ Philippa Snow for a conversation that spans the future of beauty, the reach of the Kardashians, and the rise of a ‘Love Island look’. Meanwhile, from her home in Mexico City, photographer Graciela Iturbide guides us through her visual archive, an odyssey marked by distant travels and supernatural encounters.
Simon Costin recalls his first collaboration with Academy Award-winner Sandy Powell on the set of Derek Jarman’s Caravaggio, their decades-long friendship a testament to the late director’s legacy. Dea Kulumbegashvili, winner of the Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival, is profoundly unreserved at her home in East Berlin, where she lives in self-imposed exile. ‘This is my cinema’, she says, reflecting on her displacement with Zico Judge, ‘the cinema of things we don’t talk about in Georgia’.
Konstantin Kakanias and Joe Pickman come clean in a tell-all with Robbie Whitehead, paired with an original comic—a ‘soap opera’, even—that follows Konstantin’s alter ego. Laura Frade imagines home as a place we invent daily in a surreal feature on Ignasi Monreal’s golden dome high above Madrid, her lyrical mediation inspired by an exchange with the house’s architect, Guillermo Santomà.
An original story by Mariana Enriquez simmers in the economic turmoil of Buenos Aires at the turn of the century, where a grand apartment slowly succumbs to surprise floods, mysterious gas leaks, and paranormal acts in this haunted tale translated by Megan McDowell and illustrated by Claudia Keep.
A family reunion prompts a captivating feature on the Lijadu Sisters, ‘twin princesses of Afro-psychedelic funk’ and forces of resistance in Nigeria’s music scene throughout the ‘70s and ‘80s. Neneh Cherry and Naima Karlsson honour the legacy of their late mother, the artist Moki Cherry, at their home in Sweden, their family tree newly rooted in photos by Frank Lebon and tended to in conversation with Carmen Hall.
Featuring: Noreen Masud on Charleston House, Louis Fratino, Dea Kulumbegashvili, Zizipho Poswa, Valerie Giampietro & Alessandro Cicoria, Ignasi Monreal, Graciela Iturbide, the Lijadu Sisters, Takashi Homma, Simon Costin, Christian Kerez, Isamaya Ffrench, Moki Cherry’s Schoolhouse, Konstantin Kakanias & Joe Pickman, Anita Vitale, and Lourdes Castro.
Plus: ‘Nelly’, a short story by Mariana Enriquez (tr. Megan McDowell), ‘Mrs Tependris Takes a Bath’, and ‘Time 2 Kill’, a series of pastimes by Jody Barton
Details:
- By Apartamento Magazine
- Issue #36
- Autumn/Winter 25/26
