WAITHOOD Magazine explores the intersection between contemporary art, the urban landscape, and the youth experience, interpreting exhibition making and publishing as exciting formats of putting these interests into practice. Departing from initial investments in understanding the present conditions black artists are expected to thrive, the magazine project adopts a contextualizing tone, in that it takes advantage of a critical approach to notions of time (linear and sequential), offering multiple readings of the present condition, considering not only distorted notion of past but also the role of silences, memory and nostalgia on imagining futures otherwise.

It is central to us to enable conditions for imagination to operate, making the act of imagining a study case itself that allows us to wonder about the limitations and impossibilities that the present presents to black peoples. It’s precisely from the impossibility that the magazine’s intervention begins to unfold.

Dwelling in most of the cases with the inherited settler colonial infrastructures, the magazine offers a counter reading of the ‘worlding,’ reducing all kinds of normalizations as a mere product of a white imagination that can be grasped in the concept of modernity. - Publisher