VAULT Issue 53brings together art, fashion and ideas through a lens of connection, place and lived experience. Anchored by a major feature on Shaun Gladwell’s Spazio Tarocchi, developed through sustained exchange between Australia and Italy, the issue traces Venice as both setting and sensibility. Conversations with Hans Ulrich Obrist reflect on curating as an act of connection and openness, while features on Fiona Pardington, Lottie Consalvo, Jemima Wyman, Jacky Redgate and John Prince Siddon explore how memory, abstraction and the body shape contemporary practice. Elsewhere, essays on fashion, architecture and material culture sit alongside reflections on loss and legacy, including a dedicated tribute to the late Ashley Crawford. Across its pages, Issue 53 continues VAULT’s commitment to rigorous thinking, elegant design and art as a space where personal history, cultural exchange and imagination converge.
