Oof #16

Oof is a magazine about art and football (or because we're in Canada, soccer). The artists featured peel back the layers of meaning in this obsessive sport, and help us make sense of something bigger and more ungraspable in the process. Every day, football does with ease what art constantly tries to do: it makes people feel.

In this issue: 

"For issue 16, comrades, we've gone political. 'Going political in 2025? How gauche!' Gauche is right, because this issue is filled with left-wing invective and revolutionary polemic. We've got Eugenio Merino and INDECLINE playing football with the heads of dictators, we've got Sheida Soleimani taking aim at Gulf states using football as sportswashing, we've got AC Larsen kicking back against the FA's ban on trans players, we've got Cevdet Erek's Liverpool Biennial installation all about division and rivalry. 

To balance that all out, we've got a feature on the role of football in the brilliant, influential work of photographer Roger Mayne, and there's Dion Kitson and Adam Wynn's Big Sam Allardyce eating some orange chips on the cover. Then to lighten the mood even further, we've got an incredible photo of Roberto Baggio missing a pen and losing the World Cup in the process, haha. 

Hail comrades, the revolution may not be televised, but it will be written about in super niche art magazines."

London, UK; 160 x 240mm; 78 pages; Biannual; 2025