Produced on the occasion of Mathias Poledna’s exhibition Fine Important Post War and Contemporary at Galerie Buchholz, Köln, 12 May–18 June, 2022.

For this exhibition, the artist created a new suite of image-based works originating from Cold War era industrial photography. The materiality and visual regimes surrounding everyday and exclusive objects have frequently been at the centre of Poledna’s film installations as well as of auxiliary and independent works produced in a variety of media.

The publication contains poems by René Char which were set to music in Le Marteau Sans Maître by Pierre Boulez.