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Merrick d’Arcy-Irvine X Julia Bajanova - Mirror
We humans are social creatures. Without others to reflect our behaviour back to us, we lose what defines us - language, culture, the capacity for creative expression. That is why photographer Merrick d’Arcy-Irvine and designer Julia Bajanova are invested in intense encounters: not only with the people who appear in their pictures, but also with each other, as artists and as humans, and between their media and the materials out of which they are made. The materiality and sensual experience of these media in the physical world are the focus of the pictures gathered in this volume, which is why these two artists have eschewed digital technologies. Sensuality forges an emotional bond between their creative universes, whose boundaries become permeable, as do the dividing lines between genres. Colours and forms are fused in a shared language in which they write their messages in light on photographic paper. They speak to what makes us human: creative energies untrammelled by the necessities of everyday life. The pictures in Mirror, then, are reflections of our existence and portals of self-knowledge.
Published by: DCV Books
Design: Studio Jung
Size: 23 (w) x 30.5 (h) x 1.6 (t) cm
Cover: Linen hardcover
Pages: 112
ISBN: 978-3-96912-216-7
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Isabelle Wenzel, Glorietta Reantaso and Anita Szymczak - PLAY
PLAY is a collaborative work by Isabelle Wenzel, Glorietta Reantaso and Anita Szymczak. It is a polyphony of visions that bring about a joyful representation of women in a free, non-hierarchical manner. As authorship is put aside in favor of cooperation, the perspectives of the three partakers – a photographer, a performer and a stylist – blend together, generating new, unexpected turns. Their teamwork is an uninhibited celebration of joining forces through the body in movement. Liberated by fixed roles, the subject evolves, converts, transpose page after page. A moment of experimentation expressed through printed matter.
Published by: Art Paper Editions
Design: Jurgen Maelfeyt
Size: 21 (w) x 29.7 (h) x 1.1 (t) cm
Cover: Softcover
Pages: 40
ISBN: ISBN 9789493146747