Eraser
Angharad Williams
Published by After 8 Books, Paris & Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf, 2023, 80 pages (b/w ill.), 11 × 18 cm, English
Price: €10

Angharad Williams’ book Eraser, concludes a two-year process of writing and has existed in the form of an exhibition, a performance, and now a book. Eraser is as much about the categorical boundaries of our consensual reality—between self and other, human and non-human, waking and dreaming consciousness—as it is about an urge to overcome them. The book’s main protagonist undergoes multiple transformations via psychic and physical transferences with elementary forces—involving a trout and a magpie, among other things—that unsettle the idea of the “stable” self. Eraser proposes a perspective in which the categorical distinctions between individual self, others, and non-human life slowly begin to dissolve. Other worlds of consciousness—of animals, plants, and organic matter—here embody a form of social organization free from the hierarchies of tradition and liberal progress.

Designed by Dan Solbach.

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Christopher D'Arcangelo
Published by Kunstverein, Amsterdam & Artists Space, New York, 2023, 232 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 21.7 × 28 cm, English
Price: €40

Despite having been active for only four years before passing away at the young age of twenty-four, Christopher D’Arcangelo (1955–1979) is a key, though lesser known, figure of 1970s Institutional Critique in New York City. Even generations later, D’Arcangelo’s singular approach remains wholly unique in its radicality and generosity. This first estate-approved monograph illuminates his momentous practice after many decades of limited access to the materials surrounding it.

The publication also includes new contributions from figures who have punctuated D’Arcangelo’s practice—such as Peter Nadin, Daniel Buren, Louise Lawler and Janelle Reiring—as well as photographic contributions by artist Heji Shin. Edited by Yana Foqué and Isabelle Sully. Designed by Marc Hollenstein.

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Nuit américaine (coaster)
Marc Camille Chaimowicz
Published by Wiels, Brussels, 2023, coaster (colour & b/w ill.), 10.7 × 10.7 cm, English
Price: €10

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition Nuit américaine at Wiels, Brussels, 17 February–13 August, 2023.

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Nuit américaine (coaster)
Marc Camille Chaimowicz
Published by Wiels, Brussels, 2023, coaster (colour & b/w ill.), 11.6 × 10.2 cm, English
Price: €10

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition Nuit américaine at Wiels, Brussels, 17 February–13 August, 2023.

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Books & Ephemera 1977–2023
Marc Camille Chaimowicz
22 September–3 November, 2023

Since the early 1970s, Marc Camille Chaimowicz has defied straightforward categorisation, creating large-scale installations that combine everything from found objects, painting, performance and sculpture to lighting and ceramics. Visually rich and precisely observed, the objects and images he designs, makes, and gathers from elsewhere propose connections, set up oppositions, and trace narratives in a dense play of puzzle, metaphor, and interpretative possibility. This approach extends seamlessly to the printed material associated with his practice, which range from books, invitation cards, posters, prints, clothing and wine labels.

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Drive It All Over Me
Paige K. Bradley
Published by S*I*G Verlag, Berlin, 2023, (b/w ill.), 15 × 21 cm, English
Price: €10

Paige Bradley’s Drive It All Over Me was commissioned by the artists Jay Chung and Q Takeki Maeda and concerns their work Bad Driver, 2023, Jack Goldstein’s Selected Writings, and Vanessa Place’s Gone with the Wind and concerns broad themes of subtextual narrative, authorship, and identity in text-based visual artworks while also touching upon allegory, elaborately subtle jokes, and writing as a sculptural material.

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