{"title":"Trigger","description":"\u003csection class=\"c-section overflow-visible py-12 md:py-16\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"o-wrap\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"o-grid justify-center\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"o-grid__col w-full lg:w-8\/12\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"c-article  -drop-cap\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-component=\"article\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTrigger is a publication initiated by FOMU that provides a space for critical reflection on photography. It brings together voices from across the field—artists, scholars, and practitioners—to challenge dominant narratives and highlight perspectives that are often overlooked.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEach year, Trigger publishes a thematic book in collaboration with FW:Books, curated by a guest editor whose ongoing research serves as the starting point for dialogue. The annual theme emerges from this research and grows through collective inquiry, connecting diverse perspectives and practices.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Trigger website complements the book series with carefully curated content that deepens the annual theme, foregrounds emerging voices, and supports collaborative reflection. Rather than focusing on standalone reviews or portfolios, it fosters sustained critical engagement and debate around photography.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBy engaging with photography’s history, contemporary practices, and future directions, Trigger explores the medium’s evolving role in shaping culture and perception. It examines the forces that influence photographic representation and advocates for a more inclusive, reflective, and forward-looking photographic discourse.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e---\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor questions, requests, feedback or just anything contact us through:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTom Viaene, coordinator of Trigger: tom.viaene@fomu.be\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFind us on instagram here\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/triggerfomu\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e@triggerfomu\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/section\u003e\n\u003csection class=\"c-section overflow-visible py-12 md:py-16\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"o-wrap\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"o-grid justify-center\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"o-grid__col w-full lg:w-8\/12\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"c-article\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-component=\"article\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEditorial team Trigger\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCoordinator: Tom Viaene\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCurators\/editors from FOMU: Ingrid Leonard, Anne Ruygt, Muhiba Botan, Kaat Somers, Zeynep Kubat. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/section\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"trigger-nr-1-impact","title":"TRIGGER nr. 1: Impact","description":"\u003cp\u003eTRIGGER publishes (longread) essays, interviews, opinions, new gazes, and opens up research to the broader public.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTRIGGER is a new publication platform concerning photography, which originates from and is supported by FOMU.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTRIGGER is published entirely in English, both as an online platform and an annual printed publication in collaboration with Fw:Books (Amsterdam).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTRIGGER nr.1: Impact\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe first issue on ‘Impact’ is made in close collaboration with The Royal Academy of Fine Arts (KABK), The Hague, The Netherlands, and guest editor Donald Weber, teacher and researcher at KABK.  It deals with photography's 'impact', in different social and political contexts, in our current time joint and in the past. Can we still assume photography’s (age-old) impact in an image-saturated world, where fake news, the questioning of representative democracy and the return of colonial pasts are engaging different political cultures, publics, action and pression groups? How can photography function as a tool for environmental change?  What is the role of photographs in political debates?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"FOMU","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":31167757877322,"sku":"","price":16.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0263\/0850\/9770\/files\/template_shopify_71.png?v=1754917432"},{"product_id":"trigger-nr-2-uncertainty","title":"Trigger nr.2: Uncertainty","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe School of Speculative Documentary (associated with KASK \u0026amp; Conservatorium \/ School of Arts Gent, Belgium), FOMU and FW:Books have been collaborating for the publication of Trigger nr. 2 on the issue of UNCERTAINTY. This annually printed thematical issue appears in the first week of December 2020. It harbors contributions by, amongst others, Liz Orton, Petra Van Brabandt, T.J. Demos, Duncan Forbes, Max Pinckers, Georges Senga, Hoda Afshar, Fred Ritchin and Wilco Versteeg.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat if we allow speculation, messiness and befoggedness to set the conditions for documentary gestures and practices? What if we start using speculation as a tool, how can we re-imagine past, present and future?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eContemporary documentary practice has a crucial role to play within art, mainstream media and activism. It constitutes less a genre, and more ‘a critical method’ in its own right. How can we rethink the documentary attitude conceptually, formally and methodologically? UNCERTAINTY! What if this unfinished business of the documentary, creates even more possibilities for speculation and imagination? How can we make decentralized, deformatted and polycentric documentaries, even if we assume that we will never fully succeed?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTrigger #2 explores the potentials, the problems and paradoxes of an openly speculative documentary.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA 'messy' mix of essays and artist contributions delivers imaginative and thoughtful insights in several Belgian and international 'uncertain' photographic practices and archives (Zineb Sedira, Saddie Choua, Barbara Probst, Marc De Blieck, Kate Morrell, Regine Petersen, Sophy Rickett, Allan Sekula and Lisette Model) and makes multiple bridges to collective practices which deal with speculation, recreation and radical futurisms (De Cleene De Cleene, Black Quantum Futurism, the Otolith Group, Robin Vanbesien).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs stated in the editorial:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'Without claiming to be exhaustive, this issue gathers proposals that look for the document’s new uncertain potentials: documentary tales as life-giving fictions, the anti-documentary as care aesthetics, the dialectical documentary, the documentary as the creative practice of chronopolitics, the ‘dirty pictures’ documentary, the documentary as allegory, the documentary as pre-enactment and more. We have opted not to strive for a stringent classification of these proposals reflected in a neat table of contents but rather just to stay true to the polycentricity of its design. ‘We are not points on a line; rather, we are the centre of circles’, John Berger – a master of recognising the real value of the fictive in our time – scribbled near the end of his life in\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eConfabulations\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(2016).'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"FOMU","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":37626801389763,"sku":"","price":16.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0263\/0850\/9770\/files\/template_shopify_-_2025-08-11T160255.901.png?v=1754921001"},{"product_id":"trigger-nr-3-care","title":"Trigger nr. 3: Care","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe third issue of Trigger gathers forms, coalitions, conflicts and archives of care through photography and visual art practices. Care is everywhere and at the same time society faces a ‘care problem’. How do artists and photographers create more caring relationships between humans, technology, and nature, given the challenges ? An editorial commitment to care by an international Belgian-Dutch-German team leads to a variety of artistic practices and underrepresented stories. Theoretical text contributions, visual contributions, and experimental, hybrid formats stand side by side. Trigger#3: Care is published in close collaboration with the Biennale für aktuelle Fotografie (Mannheim, Ludwigshafen and Heidelberg) and Iris Sikking (curator of the 2022 edition) as guest editors and designed by Hans Gremmen (Fw: Books, Amsterdam).\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003csection class=\"c-section overflow-visible py-12 md:py-16\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"o-wrap\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"o-grid justify-center\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"o-grid__col w-full lg:w-8\/12\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"c-article  -drop-cap\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-component=\"article\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this issue we present the work of: Aurélie Bayad, Bindi Vora, Silvy Crespo, Pablo Lerma, Liz Orton \u0026amp; Sharon Young, Mashid Mohadjerin, Grace Ndiritu, WAI Architecture Think Tank, Lisa Barnard, Mónica Alcázar-Duarte, Mischa Vallejo, Gerard Ortín Castellví, Noémi Goudal, Mónica Alcázar-Duarte, Frida Orupabo, Rune Peitersen, The Archive of Public Protests.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith essay contributions and conversations by: Christoph Miler (Offshore studio), Rune Peitersen, Cruz Garcia \u0026amp; Nathalie Frankowski (WAI Architecture Think Tank), Laura Herman, Jana Johanna Haeckel, Sara Knelman, Macarena Gómez-Barris, Karolina Gembara, Grace Ndiritu, and George King.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/section\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"o-wrap mt-16\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"o-grid\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"o-grid__col w-full\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"border-b border-t border-trigger-blue\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"o-grid justify-center\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"o-grid__col max-w-lg\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"c-author pt-48 pb-32 md:pt-80 md:pb-69\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTom Viaene\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis coordinating\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eTrigger\u003c\/em\u003e, FOMU’s publication platform. He is also a lecturer at Sint Lucas \u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAntwerpen School of Arts and the Royal Conservatory of Brussels where he teaches cultural theory, philosophy, social practices, and aesthetic perspectives.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"FOMU","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40961039335619,"sku":"","price":16.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0263\/0850\/9770\/files\/template_shopify_-_2025-08-11T160408.660.png?v=1754921068"},{"product_id":"trigger-nr-4-together","title":"Trigger nr. 4: Together","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDit themanummer verkent diverse vormen van samenwerking in de fotografie. Zestien bijdragen belichten verschillende strategieën om de gangbare noties van auteurschap en eigendom te bevragen en bestaande heteronormatieve, statelijke of hyperindividuele categorieën te doorbreken. In dit nummer kan je toegankelijke essays terugvinden van onder andere internationaal gerenommeerde onderzoekers en schrijvers zoals Elspeth Brown, Ileana Selejan en Hettie Judah. Het geeft verder een inkijk in de vormen van samenwerking en gemeenschap in uiteenlopende fotografie-praktijken van Jonathas de Andrade, Grace Ndiritu, Leigh Ledare, Dries Segers en Vincen Beeckman. Je kan er ook enkele conversaties tussen fotografen, critici en curatoren lezen over sociaal geëngageerde fotografie en samenwerkingen met het niet-menselijke. Kunstenaars en fotografen zoals Debmalya Roy Choudhuri, Susanne Kriemann, Tuan Andrew Nguyen, Kaali Collective en Rehab Eldalil hebben dan weer speciaal voor dit nummer bestaand werk in een nieuwe bijdrage gegoten. Het is een meerstemmig nummer geworden met fotografie-praktijken uit onder andere Brazilië, Bangladesh, Vietnam, Verenigde Staten, het Verenigd Koninkrijk, Egypte, Duitsland en uiteraard ook België.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003csection class=\"c-section overflow-visible py-12 md:py-16\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"o-wrap\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"o-grid justify-center\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"o-grid__col w-full lg:w-8\/12\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"c-article  -drop-cap\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-component=\"article\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/section\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"o-wrap mt-16\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"o-grid\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"o-grid__col w-full\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"border-b border-t border-trigger-blue\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"o-grid justify-center\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"o-grid__col max-w-lg\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"c-author pt-48 pb-32 md:pt-80 md:pb-69\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTrigger is een online en gedrukte publicatie uitgegeven door FOMU ism Fw:Books (Amsterdam). Het magazine neemt fotografie als vertrekpunt voor kritiek, long reads, hedendaags en historisch onderzoek en kunstenaarsbijdragen. Elk jaar publiceert Trigger ook een themanummer in samenwerking met een gastredacteur. 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Maar energie was altijd meer dan brandstof of het materiële potentieel voor actie (of vooruitgang). Je zult olie (corporaties), hernieuwbare energiebronnen, boeddhisme, oorlogsenergie, vrouwelijke woede, spirituele bossen en meer allemaal gemengd in dezelfde pot terugvinden. Dit nummer brengt enkele van de verschillende geschiedenissen en culturen van energie naar boven die vandaag vaak onzichtbaar zijn. 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Van editie 1 tot en met 5, elk nummer biedt een nieuw perspectief op creativiteit, cultuur en innovatie. De magazines zitten boordevol inspirerende verhalen, adembenemende fotografie en unieke inzichten.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"o-wrap mt-16\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"o-grid\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"o-grid__col w-full\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"border-b border-t border-trigger-blue\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"o-grid justify-center\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"o-grid__col max-w-lg\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"c-author pt-48 pb-32 md:pt-80 md:pb-69\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTrigger is een online en gedrukte publicatie uitgegeven door FOMU ism Fw:Books (Amsterdam). Het magazine neemt fotografie als vertrekpunt voor kritiek, long reads, hedendaags en historisch onderzoek en kunstenaarsbijdragen. Elk jaar publiceert Trigger ook een themanummer in samenwerking met een gastredacteur. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDe magazines zijn Engelstalig!\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"FOMU","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53992253358405,"sku":null,"price":48.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0263\/0850\/9770\/files\/template_shopify_-_2025-08-11T160105.282.png?v=1754920884"},{"product_id":"trigger-6-assemblies","title":"Trigger #6 Assemblies","description":"\u003cp class=\"pb-3 last:pb-0\"\u003e\u003cspan data-token-index=\"0\" class=\"notion-enable-hover\"\u003eTrigger #6 Assemblies - VOORVERKOOP - LAUNCH 8 november 2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTrigger: A publication for reflection on photography by FOMU, published by Fw:Books\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan data-token-index=\"2\" class=\"notion-enable-hover\"\u003eAssemblies\u003c\/span\u003e brings together photographs, essays, and archival material that reimagine what socio-political gatherings are, could be, or might become across the SWANA region. \u003cbr\u003eGuest edited by \u003cspan data-token-index=\"4\" class=\"notion-enable-hover\"\u003eTaous Dahmani\u003c\/span\u003e, the book features contributions from artists and writers including \u003cspan data-token-index=\"6\" class=\"notion-enable-hover\"\u003eRabih Mroué, Hoda Afshar, Myriam Boulos, Larissa Sansour, Maen Hammad, Hajer Boubaker\u003c\/span\u003e and many more.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe project began as an exhibition curated by Dahmani for the \u003cspan data-token-index=\"8\" class=\"notion-enable-hover\"\u003eKamel Lazaar Foundation \/ Ibraaz\u003c\/span\u003e at Jaou Tunis 2024, and now comes full circle with the book’s launch at \u003cspan data-token-index=\"10\" class=\"notion-enable-hover\"\u003eIbraaz’s new space in London, 8 November 2025\u003c\/span\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan data-token-index=\"13\" class=\"notion-enable-hover\"\u003eWhat does it mean to gather when gathering is the last thing left to do?\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-token-index=\"14\" class=\"notion-enable-hover\"\u003eAssemblies\u003c\/span\u003e is a collection of photographs, images, and personal essays that reimagine what socio-political gatherings are, could be, or might become. \u003cbr\u003eMoving across the SWANA region (Southwest Asia and North Africa), the book traces the many shapes of coming together—protest, ritual, informal circles, fleeting encounters—to reflect on what remains, and what comes after..\u003cbr\u003eGuest edited by \u003cspan data-token-index=\"16\" class=\"notion-enable-hover\"\u003eTaous Dahmani\u003c\/span\u003e, Assemblies takes its cue from her conviction that \u003cspan data-token-index=\"18\" class=\"notion-enable-hover\"\u003elife is politics, and politics is life\u003c\/span\u003e. \u003cbr\u003eIn SWANA, the insurrectionary spirit is carried from generation to generation—protest placards become heirlooms, and opposition a way of life. Against the backdrop of uprisings, diasporas, and daily acts of resistance, this book asks what it means to assemble: not as a cliché, but as a radical form of agency.\u003cbr\u003eContributors include \u003cspan data-token-index=\"20\" class=\"notion-enable-hover\"\u003eRabih Mroué, Ala Younis, Hoda Afshar, Myriam Boulos, Céline Semaan, Farah Abdessamad, Didem Pekün, Larissa Sansour, Jumana Manna, Khaled Barakeh\u003c\/span\u003e, among many others. \u003cbr\u003eTheir essays and visual works are joined by an extensive \u003cspan data-token-index=\"22\" class=\"notion-enable-hover\"\u003earchive section\u003c\/span\u003e, with contributions from \u003cspan data-token-index=\"24\" class=\"notion-enable-hover\"\u003eMashid Mohadjerin, Joyce Joumaa, Tashattot, Mahassen Nasser-Eldin, Arab Image Foundation, Ferhas Publishing Practices, Nadine Nour el Din\u003c\/span\u003e, and more—mapping a deeper history of gatherings that resists spectacle and celebrates research.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is the \u003cspan data-token-index=\"26\" class=\"notion-enable-hover\"\u003efirst volume of Trigger in its new format\u003c\/span\u003e. No longer a magazine, but an annual book, \u003cbr\u003eTrigger launches with a renewed mission: to provide a platform for voices beyond the museum’s networks. Rooted at \u003cspan data-token-index=\"28\" class=\"notion-enable-hover\"\u003eFOMU – the museum of photography in Antwerp (Belgium)\u003c\/span\u003e, Assemblies emerges from dialogues that stretch across borders, languages, and generations.\u003cbr\u003eThe project began as \u003cspan data-token-index=\"30\" class=\"notion-enable-hover\"\u003eAssembly\u003c\/span\u003e, a group exhibition curated by Dahmani for the \u003cspan data-token-index=\"32\" class=\"notion-enable-hover\"\u003eKamel Lazaar Foundation \/ Ibraaz\u003c\/span\u003e during \u003cspan data-token-index=\"34\" class=\"notion-enable-hover\"\u003eJaou Tunis 2024\u003c\/span\u003e. It now comes full circle: \u003cspan data-token-index=\"36\" class=\"notion-enable-hover\"\u003eTrigger 6: Assemblies\u003c\/span\u003e will be launched on \u003cspan data-token-index=\"38\" class=\"notion-enable-hover\"\u003e8 November 2025 at Ibraaz’s new space in London\u003c\/span\u003e, marking both the continuation of this collaboration and a new chapter for Ibraaz itself.\u003cbr\u003eAt its heart, \u003cspan data-token-index=\"40\" class=\"notion-enable-hover\"\u003eAssemblies\u003c\/span\u003e is about the politics of coming together—in streets, stadiums, kitchens, and cafés; in rituals, archives, and fleeting encounters. It is about protest as a form of life, and about imagining other ways of living, despite it all.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan data-token-index=\"46\" class=\"notion-enable-hover\"\u003eEditor:\u003c\/span\u003e Tom Viaene for FOMU in collaboration with guest editor Taous Dahmani\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan data-token-index=\"48\" class=\"notion-enable-hover\"\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/span\u003e Fw:Books \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan data-token-index=\"50\" class=\"notion-enable-hover\"\u003eConcept:\u003c\/span\u003e FOMU – Antwerp  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan data-token-index=\"56\" class=\"notion-enable-hover\"\u003eFormat:\u003c\/span\u003e Softcover, 17 × 24 cm \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan data-token-index=\"58\" class=\"notion-enable-hover\"\u003ePages:\u003c\/span\u003e ca. 320 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan data-token-index=\"60\" class=\"notion-enable-hover\"\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/span\u003e English \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan data-token-index=\"62\" class=\"notion-enable-hover\"\u003ePublication date:\u003c\/span\u003e November 2025 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan data-token-index=\"64\" class=\"notion-enable-hover\"\u003eLaunch:\u003c\/span\u003e 8 November 2025, Ibraaz (London), 14 November 2025, Le Bal (Paris) \u0026amp; March, FOMU. \u003c!-- --\u003e \u003c!-- notionvc: f5df81e5-8b14-4620-aa17-e94f490f5d0b --\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"FOMU","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55661318668613,"sku":null,"price":30.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0263\/0850\/9770\/files\/template_shopify_1_34cbb7c3-18bc-41e1-b51a-c9e025c3b08c.png?v=1758189240"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0263\/0850\/9770\/collections\/template_shopify_-_2025-08-11T160105.282.png?v=1776416908","url":"https:\/\/shop.fomu.be\/collections\/trigger.oembed","provider":"Shop.Fomu.be","version":"1.0","type":"link"}