Böcker utgivna av KAHL Editions

This title, like Ana's body of work, purposes to carefully observe the other side of circumstances and to think about an ecstatic temporality -beyond the here and now- as well as "exploring the open mesh of possibilities, gaps, overlaps, dissonances and resonances, lapses and excesses", to vindicate gender performativity. The potentiality of a rupture in monolithic thought, thus valuing interdisciplinary modes of collaboration, fuelled by a network of affinities, has contributed profoundly to how this publication was conceived. It brings together Ana's projects and paintings that narrate in a non-chronological way the repetition of motifs and concerns present in Ana's work between 2017 and 2022. Thanks to a prolific graphic universe in images -paintings, sketches, personal files, or any other media- they intertwine a set of perspectives and temporalities. Similarly, a balance between the intimate and the public, as well as between the singular and the plural, was ensured to highlight how multiple voices empower one and the same, and vice versa, a well appreciated creative resource for Ana. This publication is an extensive reflection of Ana Segovia's work, which incites us to play the match again and to imagine an "undoing" of oppressive binary thinking. As I mentioned before, I like to think that this book is not linear, where performativity shifts from being a tool of intimate survival, to an impulse for the bodies to move in a continuous utopian flow. - Aurélie Vandewynckele

Inspired by the energy and tension from the members of the St Paul's Marching Wolves, Fumi Nagasaka started to photograph them in May 2017. First time she met them, they appeared and started to perform in front of her and instantly caught her eyes. She travelled back to New Orleans in 2018, and 2020 to photograph these kids on different parade routes, and also in their private life for some of them.

During the colonial period in the Americas, a "Cimarrón" was a Black fugitive slave who lived a free life in isolated corners of society. After independence, when slavery was abolished in Mexico, the Afro-descendant population began to group mainly in two parts of the Mexican territory: Veracruz and the Costa Chica. It was in this last one where I had my first encounter with Afro-descendant culture and where I was aware of its importance and invisibility in the history of Mexico; despite being recognized as the third root, it was not until 2015 that the process for its recognition within the constitution began. Driven by after the first encounter I had with the community, I started the research that gave rise to this project, in which photography was the tool that allowed me to translate into images some historical elements that refer to the current construction of the identity of those who are called Afromexicans. El Cimarrón y su Fandango speaks to us in an allegorical way of the past of a Black community and its journey through colonial history, its integration into the territory and its current sense of identity within it. - Mara Sánchez Renero

Entering the intimacy of the alternative Parisian scene, CHARBON portrays a new generation of artists: authors, photographers, illustrators, performers, musicians, poets. CHARBON is also a movie directed by Elora Thevenet. Kahl Editions, in collaboration with the Black New Black collective, gathered no fewer than 50 participants, all of whom play a role in shaping the creative singularity of Paris:Tristan Boisvert, Guillaume de Sardes, Hannibal Volkoff, Massimiliano Mocchia di Coggiola, Aumaury Bergoin, Leila Chik, Igor Dewe, Alcibiade Cohen, Régina Demina, Paul Franco, Juliette Seydoux, Maison Métamose, Marie Beltrami, Elsa Bres, Tiphaine Samoyault, Tom de Peyret, Michael Pecot-Kleiner, Léonie Pernet, Erwan Le Gal, Chill Okubo, Cuco Cuca, Sina Araghi, Simon Thiébaut, Ludovic Azémar, Alexandre Bavard, Jacob Khrist, Emmanuel Mousset, Florent Mateo, Uèle Lamore, Guillaume Héry, Ariel Boreinstein, Georges Human, Emma Burlet, Garance Marillier, Claude-Emmanuelle Gajan-Maull, Gabrielle Smith, Julien Boudet, Alex Housset.