Sudario no.1

Sudario began as a small sixteen-page risograph fanzine, created to explore new ways of looking at images from the South of Italy. It was a simple publication, assembled by hand, yet it quickly became a space for dialogue and experimentation.

SKU: SUDARIO#01

Sudario #1 gathers the voices of 17 artists in a choral essay edited by the founder and curator of the magazine Stefano Tripodi and curator Magali Avezou.

As the project took form it became clear that focusing solely on magic felt naïve — disconnected from a world marked by conflict, collapse, and loss, and the theme of disaster emerged, articulating the contradiction at the heart of both the region and our contemporary condition.

To define Sudario’s curatorial position, that is based on the willingness to see more, name more, and refuse the narrowing of perception in times of crisis, Tripodi and Avezou also echoed philosopher Gabriel Catren’s concept of the phenomenodelic: a state of expanded perception, rigorous and Forward thinking at once. 

Given this background, this first issue takes its title from the ancient figure of the Ouroboros, the serpent that devours and regenerates itself. It is a symbol of cycles without end, of collapse that feeds new growth, of opposites that refuse to separate.

This image gives form to the way we look at the Mediterranean today: as a space where catastrophe and survival are inseparable, where faith and cynicism, myth and infrastructure, ritual and violence, coexist in one continuous loop.

The Ouroboros embodies this logic of resistance: destruction that is also creation, a circle that holds contradiction without closure. 

The design—conceived by Atto—follows a stream-of consciousness structure, evoking a sense of fluidity and focuses on building a coral narrative structure through images.

The concept is a continuous flow of photographs, where the boundaries between artists blur— merging into a single voice that speaks of the Mediterranean. Like an aedo (the ancient Greek bard) recounting tales of the lands he has visited around the fire, Sudario seeks to gather diverse voices from across the Mediterranean to tell its own story and vision of the region.

The structure resembles that of a film.

The magazine presents a sequence of selected projects by the artists invited, interspersed with the commissioned project by Mary Queau.