Lay Her Down Upon Her Back
Róisín White
200 Pages / 12x18 cm
600 copies / Soft cover
Design by Tommaso Tanini
Text by Benedetta Casagrande
Published in November 2023
Winner of Landskrona Foto & Breadfield Dummy Award 2022
ISBN 979-12-80177-35-3
25€
Order here︎︎
Bringing together the artist’s own photographs, found
archival material, handmade drawings, oral accounts
and extracts from literature, Lay Her Down Upon
Her Back looks at the history of medical mistreatment
and uneven power relations between male doctors and
female patients through a type of photography where
evidence itself plays the role of symptom. For both
in photography and in hysteria it is the surface that
carries meaning and depth, providing the space onto
which meaning plays out.
How to make jam
Vaste Programme
144 Pages / 14x19 cm
Hard cover
Design by Studio Grand Hotel
Text by Francesca Cirilli, Beatrice Zanelli
Published in October 2023
ISBN 979-12-80177-34-6
€20
Buy here︎︎
Vaste Programme. Immaginario, autentico. Project winner of the public contest “Strategia Fotografia 2022”, promoted by Direzione Generale Creatività Contemporanea of the Italian Ministry of Culture
In the fusion of place and soul, the soul is as much of a container of place as place is a container of soul, and both are susceptible to the same forces of destruction.
(Robert Pogue Harrison)
If the house is the place of soul and memory, what happens when it crumbles?
Presence and memory, time and decay, reversals of sense and approach are the main pillars of the research that Vaste Programme developed starting from two abandoned mansions. A metaphorical visual and textual reflection on the passing of time that consumes and alters everything, with Come si fa la marmellata the artists invite us, with the lightness and the depth which characterizes their work, to change our approach with reality. Without denying facts, they look for creative and playful solutions to face the passing of time and its consequences.
If time and bushes invade and destroy the houses, at least blackberries can be used to make jam...
Oikeiôsis
Mara Palena
304 Pages / 17x24 cm
500 copies / Soft cover
Design by Giovanni Murolo
Text by Matilde Scaramellini
Published in November 2023
ISBN 979-12-80177-32-2
35€
Order here︎︎
Expected shipment: middle November
Go to the special edition
The knowledge of one’s inner self as the sole tool for self-fulfillment, for stoically embracing the human condition in all its turmoils — that is what ancient Greeks used to call Oikeiôsis.
The same word was chosen by Mara Palena to call a project that unfolds over the duration of existence. The analog images shot by the artist from her childhood to today do not follow any
external precept. Instead, they are subjected to continuous alteration which seems controlled by an individual state of conscience — sometimes fragile and melancholic, sometimes romantic, sometimes sharp or even violent, yet never graspable, just like memory itself.
This infinite body of photographic works is the artist’s actual body, whose cells are the poetic intuitions that have beaten the passage of time.
This body gives itself to the collective by welcoming the viewer in a large, shared mnemonic archive where each image triggers a sense of empathy in the life experience.
Image after image, the artist rewrites that white sheet of paper that is at the same time life and death, love and repulsion, fashion and disuse, reprocessing and acceptance, singularity and multitude.
Matilde Scaramellini
The body is a revelation as is landscape
Sofia Masini
96 Pages / 20x30 cm
350 copies / spiral binding
Design by Tommaso Parrillo & Giulia Boccarossa
Text by Elisa Medde
With the support of Collezione Donata Pizzi
Published in October 2023
ISBN 979-12-80177-31-5
30€
Pre-order here︎︎
first 50 copies come with a small print
Expected shipment: second half of November
Go to the special edition
"In Sofia Masini’s work the revelation of body and landscape is a dance, a back and forth between two bodies, but also between photography and sculpture and performance. Here there is no complete fusion and reunion. The artist engages in what happens before the complete reunion - she highlights the shedding, the conflict and the hardship of the process, the search for a unity that is in sight, but not yet happening. Her body dances with rocks, between the thirst of desolation and the untameable force of powerful waters, is scarred, fragmented and reconstructed, different, as the morphing process is ongoing. It is a beginning with no end, and activation of a new archive, a search for different equilibriums - the revelation of its traces.”
Excerpt form the text “The body is a revelation as is landscape” by Elisa Medde
Replikant
Uta Genilke
88 Pages / 23x32 cm
500 copies / Soft cover
Design by Giulia Boccarossa
With the support of FOLIO, a masterclass by PhMuseum
Published in September 2023
ISBN 979-12-80177-33-9
€25
Buy here︎︎
Recently I discovered an old folder with many handwritten pages, they were all dreams that I had written down in 1985 because they seemed important to me. At that point I had just lost my first great love in a car accident and had withdrawn from the world, living in my small apartment like in a dark cave, avoiding contact with other people, the television on for hours until the end of broadcasting. I was very afraid to fall asleep because then the dreams came, the nightmares, in which a white Mercedes Benz was slowly chasing me down a lonely country road, or I heard a voice from a ditch, from a crashed car, it was him calling for help, but I suspected he was just trying to lure and capture me.
After some months I started to look forward to it, I learned that I could control my dreams, my boyfriend seemed to be stuck in a kind of in-between world, I could meet him there at night if I wanted. REPLIKANT shows my nocturnal adventures from this time. When I went out one winter evening and met a new man, my dreams disappeared, and I never saw my lover again.
