14/11/2025
25 is a delicious, delightful, divine number, even more so when it is connected to Extra Extra #25. Devilish and daring, this issue pulls you into a joyful embrace. Wolfgang Tillmans’ photographs ( ) crackle and buzz ardently, steaming up the windows, while the delectable selection of short stories makes your skin tingle. In the most open and honest way, filmmaker Radu Jude ( ) talks to Julian Ross ( ) about the inbetweens of the contemporary he so vividly captures in his films, and artist Arvida Byström opens up to Natasha H***e () about the tender provocations that blur the boundaries between digital desire and visceral ache of human want.
Design collective Espace Aygo ( ) welcomes Nadine Botha () into their Brussels communal home of alluring objects, while infamous performance artist Ivo Dimchev ( ) lays bare his new radical softness to co-artist Kira Nova, stripping away all pretense. Walk alongside Youssef Rakha ( ) over bridges and into the hidden chambers of longing in Cairo, while in News from Home Roan Kasanmonadi ( ) throws the dice to guide you across the game board of Rotterdam, daring you to play.
Touching exactly where sound and revolt intertwine, composer Neo Muyanga joins curator Fatos Üstek ( ) in a conversation on protest songs, hymns and the force that makes bodies dance and move together. Sixteen pages of Lieve Hakkers’ ( ) vivid Cave made specially for Extra Extra invites you to lean in, while Elle Pérez’ ( ) penetrating photographs embed themselves on your retina. Loose yourself in Louis Fratino’s intimate paintings that hum with erotic charge and linger like a caress.
Dazzling as a lover’s smile, Extra Extra issue #25 is to die for.
