Produced on the occasion of the awarding of the Manor Art Prize to Linda Semadeni and the subsequent exhibition at the Bündner Kunstmuseum, 18 February–3 July, 2023.

The book documents a comprehensive drawing series from the year 2023. Underlying these drawings is a performative investigation. In each line, in every mark are Linda Semadeni’s movements. On several hundred sheets she breaks up word combinations into their fragments by contortion and repetition such as “I’m not a nice girl” or “I’m a hot nice girl”. Plastic, spray cans, fire, photo paper, hair, felt pens and bubble wrap are used. Unpredictability is the creative principle.

With texts Alan Longino and Damian Jurt.

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition Philosopher of her own Ruin at the Bonner Kunstverein, 23 February–27 July, 2025. Curated by Alan Longino and featuring the work of Dusti Bongé, Rosemarie Castoro, Anna Bella Geiger, Susan Hiller, Ishiuchi Miyako, Lisa Robertson, Bertram Schmiterlöw, Sydney Schrader, Linda Semadeni and Tokiwa Toyoko.

“This exhibition and its attendant research follow the path of an entity, once a person, who passed from a moment of hypervisibility into invisibility at a critical juncture in their life. It was in this later moment of life, when their body had undergone a previously unknown transformation, that a new freedom came to them. This new freedom then allowed an entirely novel path of self-realization to occur.”—Alan Longino

Edited by Fatima Hellberg, Andrew Christopher Green and Martha Joseph. Designed by Pedro Cid Proença.