On the cover - Alejandro Cesarco

Attempts to voice our feelings, Cesarco’s patchwork of borrowings suggests, invariably sieve through what we’ve seen, heard, read, and so we don’t really express ourselves at all. “I think that a truly authentic, individual and original expression would be a completely hermetic utterance in an incomprehensible, unshared code,” says the artist. “Our use of language, of any language, is always already mediated.” Martin Herbert profiles Alejandro Cesarco

Istanbul

Education and attention to the past form a buffer against the pure market speculation to which growth economies like Turkey’s are prone when they quickly develop a contemporary art market and start attracting interest from wealthy collectors at home and abroad. Laura McLean-Ferris finds a feverish contemporary art market in Istanbul, along with serious efforts to document and preserve Turkey’s recent art history

Esther Shalev-Gerz

Parsing the message and content of works by Esther Shalev-Gerz requires external assistance. They need to be described, they are difficult to describe and often they are about, precisely, the difficulty of describing. Christopher Mooney meets ‘artist’s artist’ Esther Shalev-Gerz in Paris