There is a certain hour—just as the evening’s last light curls around the rooftops—when forgotten ideas stir: half remembered, half dreamed. Sélavy belongs to that hour.

 

Sélavy is a magazine inspired by Marcel Duchamp’s enigmatic alter ego, Rrose Sélavy, a figure embodying wit, irony, cerebral play, and ambiguity. Like its namesake, Sélavy celebrates the unorthodox and the overlooked with a spirit of wonder and discovery. It ventures into obscure corners of culture, unraveling the curious intricacies of art, architecture, literature, fashion, sports, politics, and beyond. It delights in the twilight of our world, weaving together seemingly unrelated elements to uncover hidden connections—stories that gently nudge the boundaries of conventional thought.

 

Sélavy embraces a broad, interdisciplinary perspective, seeing cultural production not as isolated fields but as threads woven into the larger fabric of human creativity. While engaging thoughtfully with diverse cultural narratives, its intellectual grounding remains firmly rooted in European traditions, emphasizing historical continuity, interrogation, and analysis. That said, Sélavy privileges irony over certainty, paradox over resolution, and moves fluidly between high and low culture. With a wry smile and a raised eyebrow, it lifts the stones on well-trodden paths, revealing the surprising, the shocking, the humorous, the poetic, the exhilarating, and the absurd.