Lodown Magazine - Véhicule #7 2025

Past. Present. Future. The ongoing fascination with the possibilities of mobility certainly is rooted in our very own experiences and its related memories and imagination. It’s the view of this old-timer that triggers recollections of an early family vacation where you experienced different smells, sounds, and languages for the first time. It’s that sci-fi movie with its gloriously detailed depiction of space ships that made you spin your mind around time and space. It’s this particular locomotive vehicle that suddenly makes you experience freedom and individuality like never before.
On an artistic level, technology, power, design, speed, and the resulting noise made up for an alluring cocktail that has been sipped down by artists since the glorious days of Futurism some 115 years ago. The celebration of motorized vehicles as the most prominent symbol of modernity might have gotten a bit quieter and overall critical over the last decades, but its almost magical appeal to creative minds from all over the globe remains at an all-time high.
And that’s exactly why LODOWN’s 7th installment of the “Vèhicules“ series delivers another elaborate and highly relevant view on the many different textual and medial approaches this topic has to offer.