Bubblegum Club

26/05/2026

The Land Remembers is a group exhibition organised by DADDY Magazine that examines the biases embedded in sustainability discourse and the uneven realities of waste colonialism.

Bringing together artists working across video, installation, and performance, the exhibition considers how land, water, and bodies register the material consequences of overconsumption, extraction, and global inequality.

The exhibition opens tomorrow, 27 May 2026, at , Glogauer Strasse 16, Berlin.

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Image credit: Circular Heroes

19/05/2026

Based in Accra, , founded by artist and textile designer , sits within a growing ecosystem of creatives responding to the realities of global clothing excess through material experimentation, design, and entrepreneurship. Working exclusively with garments sourced from Kantamanto Market, the project transforms discarded jeans and cotton shirts into new textiles through a process of deconstruction, recomposition, and systems-building.

Rather than foregrounding the familiar aesthetics of upcycling, Deadline Factory is interested in developing textiles that can sit alongside conventional production — asking not only what happens to used clothing, but how new manufacturing structures might emerge from what is already in circulation.

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29/04/2026

Following our recent feature on Josiane Martinho, this video offers a closer look at how her practice takes shape.

Focusing on process, it traces how her collaborations with musicians and performers unfold through exchange, and how couture methodologies sit at the centre of this work. It also looks at how she translates this approach into the editorial realm, particularly through her role as fashion editor at l’idiot utile.

Rather than positioning herself outside fashion, her work moves alongside it, building a practice grounded in autonomy, process and exchange.

22/04/2026

Watch Rafael Kouto’s new film, Notes & Artefacts from altared futures – Temporarily closed for healing. The piece explores the relationship between craft and spirituality, where objects are worn, carried, and activated through the body.

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Full film via link in bio.

03/03/2026

What does it mean to participate in fashion without fully subscribing to its pace or pressures?
Based in Geneva, .martinho has developed a parallel practice that moves between styling, costume and couture, privileging collaboration, experimentation and slowness over the demands of scale and visibility. In a moment of growing scrutiny around fashion’s labour and ecological systems, her work expands what the field might become.

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Photography:
Styling: .martinho
Location: Théâtre Le Poche

04/02/2026

We were invited by CEL Studio ( to collaborate on their ongoing world-building series, Foundations, with a video piece responding to a collaborative speculative fiction text by DeForrest Brown Jr. and CEL, devised through a number of creative round tables initiated by CEL as part of their artist residency. The text featured an accompanying soundtrack by DeForrest Brown Jr. ()

We responded to this by thinking about sound as a technology: a carrier of ancestral knowledge, creativity, and political consciousness. In this world, dreams are not escapes — they are active spaces where futures are rehearsed and memories circulate across generations.

The film moves between two temporal worlds:
2070, imagined through AI-generated domes whose glitches mirror the instability of future visions; and the 2010s, drawn from archival footage of South African sonic and creative cultures — nightlife, dance floors, lofi tools, and taxi sound systems.

We used AI as a speculative tool — a space that feels neither fully real nor fully imaginary. We built our own matte paintings and style frames from personal archives and references, filtered them through AI systems, and translated them into moving images before editing the final piece to DeForrest Brown Jr.’s soundtrack.

The result is a dreamlike collage where sound, memory, and speculation weave together — imagining futures that remain slippery, unresolved, and still in formation.

Bubblegum Club collaborators on the project: .xolo , .maro , and

04/12/2025

Moving between the political and the deeply personal, Kenyaa Mzee’s practice confronts the truths we try to keep at the edges of our vision. Her work tears at the fabric of reality — exposing extraction, resistance, and the softer legacies we inherit and create.

-Written by: Sophie Florence Mullins-Poole ()

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📸: Image by Kenyaa Mzee

28/11/2025

We wanted to see what would happen if we created a fashion editorial using only the Galaxy A56 and its AI features. No studio. No lighting setup. No photographer. Just the phone.

Using Circle to Search, Object Eraser and Best Face, we explored how the A56’s Awesome Intelligence features can simulate traditional studio portraiture — decentralised and in your pocket.

https://bubblegumclub.org/articles/dematerialising-the-studio-fashion-image-making-with-awesome-intelligence

Paid partnership with Samsung

At Bubblegum Club, we’re always looking for ways to stretch, remix, and rethink the tools we use to create images — and to question the structures that define where creativity is “supposed” to happen. When we received the Samsung Galaxy A56, we were interested not only in testing its capabil...

25/11/2025

Positioned between fashion’s waste economies and the possibilities of material reinvention, this piece reflects on how Dominique Lanz’s textile sculptures challenge hierarchies, disrupt narratives of value, and reimagine the futures of fashion’s debris.

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17/11/2025

Geneva-based curators Danniel Tostes and Lari Medawar used their 2025 residency at FMAC Genève to explore how institutional collections can be reactivated through care, collaboration, and inclusion.

Rooted in their intersecting trajectories — from Rio de Janeiro’s institutional art world to Geneva’s independent and activist scenes — their work unfolds across archives, studios, and exhibition spaces, bringing together artists from within and beyond the FMAC collection to imagine new narratives and possible futures.

Written by: Jamal Nxedlana ()

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