Breathless

"The book BREATHLESS shares contributions on the paradoxes of air, atmosphere and the breath with key texts and artworks. Immersed in the smog of our current predicament, philosopher Dehlia Hannah proposes a new vocabulary for air in her text, "Inversion Layer". Following the flow of air, Flaka Haliti's installation "Speculating on the Blue" opens a portal to an artificial atmosphere, demarcating a sensorial experience that defines boundaries of a closed reality. Connecting to other parallel worlds, philosopher Achille Mbembe's "The Universal Right to Breathe" captures the complexity of a thickened planetary atmosphere with a global perspective on the urgency of the breath, offering direction to alternative trajectories beyond suffocation. Marguerite Humeau's speculative sculptures that have survived suffocation imagine a species that has evolved exclusively to breath. Charles Stankievech exhumes the voices of Clarice Lispector and Lygia Clark as an interconnected mystical encounter in a text titled "Breath With Me, A Breath of Life". In "Twilight of Sighs", psychoanalyst and philosopher Alireza Taheri analyzes a sigh with a set of poetic propositions. With the same intensity, Donn