Agazine is a project by Alec Baldin and probes the aesthetics of restraint. Framed around the deceptively simple question: How can strong restrictions and simplicity be of visual interest? This ongoing interview series features conversations with artists, designers, architects, and curators whose practices resist spectacle in favor of nuance. Each dialogue homes in on a single work: minor, perhaps, in scale or visibility, yet rich in conceptual density. These works become entry points into larger questions about method, intuition, and the ethics of form.

In the spirit of René Heyvaert’s observation that “an invention is by definition something that we do not seek, but find,” Agazine approaches making as a kind of archaeology uncovering meaning not through grand declarations, but through the rigor of attention. Less manifesto than map, it charts a way of working that values clarity over noise and  structure over seduction.

Starting page: Virgil Abloh, Rotraut Susanne Berner, Koenraad Dedobbeleer, Jørgen Leth, Ko Pin-Yi