re:visions.
An open-access online journal for art and visual culture of the 20th and 21st centuries.

5th issue, May 2025
ABJECTION

The fifth issue of re:visions invites readers to re-engage with the disruptive and subversive potential of abjection, as theorized by Julia Kristeva in the 1980s, in both theory and artistic practice.

CONTENTS
https://revisionsjournal.de/Abjection-alle-Beitrage

EDITORIAL
by Noemy Macari, Kat Ripea, and Johanna Siegler
https://revisionsjournal.de/Abjection-Editorial

ESSAYS

Durchlässige Körper:
Schmerzgrenzen und ihre Überschreitung bei Florentina Holzinger
by Claudia Redka
https://revisionsjournal.de/Redka-Durchlassige-Korper

Queer Horror in Post-Authoritarian Argentina:
Haunting, Memory, and Resistance in the Gothic Imagination
by Estela Braun Carrasco
https://revisionsjournal.de/Carrasco-Queer-Horror-in-Post-Authoritarian-Argentina

Turned Inside Out:
On the Interplay Between Medical Visualization Tools in Art and the Abject Body
by Malin Cäcilie Krahn
https://revisionsjournal.de/Krahn-Turned-Inside-Out

In the Folds:
Notes on Clothing and Abjection in the Work of Bárbara Sánchez-Kane
by Franziska Blume
https://revisionsjournal.de/Blume-In-the-Folds

Von verkörperter Kritik und strukturierter Scheiße:
Mike Kelley und die Komödie der Kunstkritik der 1990er Jahre
by Sophia Roxane Rohwetter
https://revisionsjournal.de/Rohwetter-Von-verkorperter-Kritik-und-strukturierter-Scheise

INTERVIEW
Scream-And-Laughter Infection at the Cinema!
A Conversation with Eli Lewy and Sara Neidorf, Directors of the Final Girls Berlin Film Festival
by Clara Thym
https://revisionsjournal.de/Interview

PORTRAIT
Anat Homm
by Anne Diestelkamp and Leonie Rösler
https://revisionsjournal.de/Portrait-Anat-Homm

REVIEWS

A Cracked Polystyrene Man:
On the Politics of Self-Engendering in Jean-Charles de Quillacq’s
A Real Boy, 2024
by Johanna Siegler
https://revisionsjournal.de/Siegler-A-Cracked-Polystyrene-Man

The Substance
by Frederieke Henk
https://revisionsjournal.de/Henk-The-Substance

Dreamscapes for other narratives:
Luiz Roque’s first mid-career survey
by Mariia Ostapkevich
https://revisionsjournal.de/Ostapkevich-Dreamscapes-for-other-narratives

Rineke Dijkstra:
Still – Moving. Portraits 1992 – 2024
by Pauline Barnhusen
https://revisionsjournal.de/Barnhusen-Rineke-Dijkstra

Kennedy, Car, Crush:
THEATER for Therapy
by Konstantin Raftl
https://revisionsjournal.de/Raftl-Kennedy-Car-Crush