Leta Peer's melancholic, strangely bewitching pictures remind us of the paintings of the romantics, of their assumed harmonization of nature with humans. Yet they confront us with exploitation and aestheticism of nature.

The term "disturbing beauty"--no matter how inflationary it has been used in other contexts--is perhaps the most fitting description of this complex work.

Martin Eder's new body of work is inhabited by ghostly hybrid creatures. Blurring the transition between humans, animals, and supernatural beings, Eder explores the motif of the boundary and its transgression in his oil paintings. His subjects allude to an encounter with the underworld and recall Dante's Inferno. A symbolism that both reflects a (post-)pandemic unease and hints at the encounter of reality and illusion. Eerie and fascinating at the same time, the paintings outline a space marked by the collapse of a shared perception. In addition to studio insights and paintings, the volume includes an elucidating text by art historian Thomas Elsen as well as a conversation between Eder, Damien Hirst and Tim Marlow, director of London's Design Museum.

Lava is the title of renowned Italian media artist Fabrizio Plessi's new monumental installation. Lava is a powerful and tremendously fresh work, perhaps one of Plessi's most poetic works. This volume presents the installation and show drawings for Lava. Plessi achieved international acclaim with the documenta 8 and participation in several Venice Biennials.

Beate Passow visited the last generation of Chinese women with bound feet, the so-called "lotuslillies." The vivid photographs authentically document a social-historically grown custom shortly before its disappearance. Passow shows these now elderly women in all their dignity and pride. They are captured in their traditional home surroundings as well as in "today's" China: in front of a swimming pool, in a hotel lobby and, surprisingly, at a billiard table.