Draft001 n°4 Launch
Tuesday 23 Jun 2026 from 5pm to 10pm
Free on booking
To celebrate the publication of its fourth issue, THE DREAM MACHINE, DRAFT001 is taking over the Lafayette Anticipations Librairie for a launch event conceived as a journey through the realm of dreams.
Can we still dream, and under what conditions? To whom does this possibility belong, particularly for those whose lives are shaped by social, economic or political constraints? Building on these questions, this new issue explores contemporary forms of the imagination and its limits.
Following BIG BANG (2021), PARADE (2023) and HORS CHAMPS (2024), which examined the dynamics of creation, strategies of representation and the peripheral spaces of the gaze, DRAFT001 now turns to a more intimate dimension, inspired by Federico Fellini’s The Book of My Dreams.
More than a space for escape, the dream appears here as a terrain of tension: what becomes of it in a world saturated with images, where the imagination seems constantly solicited, even captured? Between a continuous flow and a desire for emancipation, this issue examines the conditions under which alternative narratives and yet-to-be-invented dreamlike figures emerge.
Founded in 2019 in Paris by Shayma Ait, DRAFT001 is an independent, ad-free editorial project, conceived as a visual journal at the crossroads of a magazine and a printed exhibition. Each issue brings together between 100 and 150 contributors from diverse fields – photography, music, fashion, visual arts, literature and design – around a collective research project.
Conceived as an extension of the publication, this event brings together several artists who contributed to the issue: IMA, Golce Kummer, Lalla Rami and Lewis G. Burton.
Programme:
5pm : Golce Kummer
6:30pm : IMA
7:30pm : Lalla Rami
8pm : Lewis G. Burton
9:30pm : CHERI
The bookazine will be on sale and available for signing throughout the evening.
The Al-Beyt collective will also be running a fundraising campaign throughout the evening to support the creation of a cultural centre in Syria.