2023
↖ Marine Models
Irene Kopelman
Texts in English and French by Irene Kopelman, Hélène Guenin, Stefano Tiozzo, Eric Röttinger. Design: Ayumi Higuchi & Roger Willems
2023
↖ Etienne Chambaud by Dilecta Editions
Étienne Chambaud
First monograph of the artist on the occasion of the personal exhibition dedicated to him at LaM museum (Villeneuve d'Asq) from October 2022 to January 2023. Textes by Étienne Chambaud, Filipa Ramos, Tristan Garcia, Mihnea Mircand
2022
↖ A Biography of Daphne - ACCA Melbourne
Jill Magid, Nicholas Mangan
The exhibition guide for 'A Biography of Daphne' includes a curatorial essay by Mihnea Mircan, a visual history of Daphne's iconography, and a list of works.
2020
↖ Raphael Montañez Ortiz
Raphael Montañez Ortiz
Edited by Javier Rivero Ramos, the monograph seeks to redress the scarcity of bibliographical resources dedicated to the life and work of an artist who early on committed himself to push and exceed disciplinary boundaries. Sailing through the wake of abstract expressionism into recycled cinema and afterwards into object-oriented and performance-based destructivist art.
2017
↖ De/Coding
Héctor Zamora
The works of the artist in residence of 2016, Héctor Zamora, are present on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of Fundación Rac.
2017
↖ Héctor Zamora | Dinâmica não linear
Héctor Zamora
The artist’s first major retrospective exhibition in Brazil
2017
↖ The Air is Blue
Pedro Reyes, Hans Ulrich Obrist
Luis Barragán’s house, Louis Kahn wrote after visiting it, is a place that “could have been built a hundred years ago or a hundred years from now.” So, in more ways than one, is The Air is Blue, an exhibition orchestrated in the master's house and studio by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Pedro Reyes, over the course of three years.
2017
↖ Havana Case Study
Terence Gower
Havana Case Study is the second in a series of installations by Terence Gower that use American diplomatic architecture as a lens through which to analyze US international relations (the first work in the series is Baghdad Case Study, 2012), and is based on extensive research in Havana and in US archives
2016
↖ For Your Eyes Only
Katinka Bock
“For Your Eyes Only“ is a penetrable exhibition that attempts to highlight the most immediate senses, like touching or hearing, while raising questions about the consistency and texture of the materials based on false visual clues and questioning the supremacy of sight over the other senses.
2016
↖ Manifiesto
Terence Gower
A manifest is a rhetorical device designed carefully - both by its structure and by the words selected - to ignite the passions of those who listen to it. For the cultural avant gardes of the early twentieth century, a manifesto was the requisite and ultimate message to launch a new artistic movement.
2016
↖ Héctor Zamora
Héctor Zamora
This small format art book talks about the work of Héctor Zamora, a Mexican contemporary artist whose work is based on interventions of public spaces and urban works of large format that tend to social criticism.
2016
↖ El hallazgo del miembro fantasma
Erick Beltrán, Jorge Satorre
In El hallazgo del miembro fantasma Erick Beltrán and Jorge Satorre investigate the power of the image in a police cartoon.
2016
↖ Limits to Growth
Nicholas Mangan
This publication accompanies Australian multidisciplinary artist Nicholas Mangan’s survey exhibition “Limits to Growth.” The exhibition and book bring together four of Mangan’s most significant works of the past seven years, alongside a new commission.
2014
↖ Pazifik
Katinka Bock
Published to accompany thirteen sculptures and installations by Katinka Bock at the Henry Art Gallery in Seattle, six of which were specially commissioned, this book presents the pieces formally, but also explores the context of their creation.
2014
↖ Join the dots
Ernesto Mallard, Pedro Reyes
Published in the ocassion of Join the Dots de Ernesto Mallard / Pedro Reyes 19.09.2014–31.10.2014
2014
↖ The Permanent Revolution. An Ideological Screwball Comedy
Pedro Reyes
This book presents the mise-en-scène created by Mexican artist Pedro Reyes, who was commissioned by the Fundación Jumex Arte Contemporáneo in Mexico City. The project is part of the Baby Marx series, which explores the contradictions between socialism and capitalism, two ideologies which still permeate today’s culture.
2014
↖ Theater of the World
Terence Gower, Pedro Reyes
The theater of the world examines the work of different artists interested in architecture as a place of political and social representation. In the midst of theatricality and propaganda, each city is reimagined and rebuilt as a result of a show.
2014
↖ Esto es una papa
Irene Kopelman
This 6th volume of Kopelman's publication series Notes on Representation reports a travel to the Andean highlands in Peru where she investigated the amorphous shapes of native potatoes.
2013
↖ Skulptur, Fotografie, Film
Santiago Sierra
Skulptur, Fotografie, Film-Santiago Sierra
2012
↖ Looking at Trees
Irene Kopelman
An exclusive book with two series of two watercolours entitled ‘Dots in Tree’ and ‘Tree Drawings’. Edition of 400 copies, signed and numbered by the artist. Design by Roger Willems.
2012
↖ La Promesa
Teresa Margolles
The present work emerged as an artistic manifestation at the time when Teresa Margolles was involved in the investigation of the most critical and violent areas of reality in Mexico. Reflecting on the photographic record made in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua between 2009 and 2010; Margolles visualized the idea of this performance as an attempt at an aesthetic approach to critically influence the context in which one lives.
2012
↖ Sinking Islands
Etienne Chambaud
The publication that accompanied the curatorial work by Vincent Normand, Sinking Islands at LABOR, in Mexico City.
2012
↖ Some Kinds of Duration
Nicholas Mangan
This book extends Nicholas Mangan’s Some Kinds of Duration project, which was presented as a solo exhibition at the Centre for Contemporary Photography in 2012, and as part of the group show Talking Pictures at Artspace in 2011.
2012
↖ El Testigo
Teresa Margolles
Teresa Margolles manifests through her work a great interest in the way the real affects and directly determines the lives of individuals. His works show the impermanence of things, beings and their relationships; But in turn suggest the urgency and need for the development of concrete forms of solidarity.
2011
↖ Entanglement
Irene Kopelman
Irene Kopelman’s work explores the parallel worlds of artists and researchers. In 2012, she applied for a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship, “an opportunity that could ignite endless ideas”.
2011
↖ The Molyneux Problem
Irene Kopelman
Molyneux's problem is a thought experiment in philosophy concerning immediate recovery from blindness, notably referenced by John Locke.
2011
↖ X points of view
Irene Kopelman
Irene Kopelman’s work and research highlight the close and detailed relationship between art and science.
2011
↖ Semefo 1990-1999: From the morgue to the museum
Teresa Margolles
SEMEFO. 1990-1999. From the Morgue to the Museum is a book that recovers and analyzes the artistic work of the group founded by Teresa Margolles, Carlos López, Juan Luis García and Arturo Angulo, which had as its axis the aesthetic explorations of the social and cultural implications of death, In them the corpse and its fluids were the central symbolic object of supports such as photography, sculpture, performance, installation, video, theater and music.
2011
↖ 50 Meters Distance or More
Irene Kopelman
Notes on Representation Volume 4’. A collection of drawings and texts by Irene Kopelman, gathered during a journey to the Antartic from January 6-26th 2010, aboard the expedition sailboat Spirit of Sydney.
2011
↖ LASER/DISC/SCRATCH/DESTRUCTION
Raphael Montañez Ortíz
Edited by Pedro Reyes on the occasion of the exhibition LASER/DISC/SCRATCH/DESTRUCTION: RAPHAEL MONTAÑEZ ORTÍZ at LABOR in Mexico City in March of 2011.
2010
↖ Contre-Histoire de la Séparation
Etienne Chambaud
Contre-Histoire de la Séparation is based on the eponymous film by Etienne Chambaud and Vincent Normand, which it translates in the space of the book. The voice-over in the film has been made into a one-edition book, which was rephotographed according to the technique the authors used to make the film.
2010
↖ Modelling Standard
Eric Beltrán, Jorge Satorre
This series of illustrations is the result of a project initiated in 2010 by invitation of Catalina Lozano at Gasworks, a centre for contemporary art in South London.
2010
↖ Notes From a Cretaceous World
Nicholas Mangan
The publication documents and discusses four major works by Nicholas Mangan: The Colony 2005, The Mutant Message 2006, At Southwest Stone 2008 and Nauru, Notes from a Cretaceous World 2010.
2009
↖ What Else Could We Talk About?
Teresa Margolles
¿De qué otra cosa podríamos hablar? (What Else Could We Talk About?) is much more than a document of the intervention of Margolles in Venice. This book gathers a multiple reflection (based on testimonies, narratives, historical reflection, and production) on the futile crusade against drugs and its perverse effects.
2007
↖ Skidproof view
Pablo Vargas Lugo
The book documents the production of an immense installation of 16,000 pyramids that were presented in the Jumex collection and in the biennial of Sao Paolo. Because of its size, the facility was destroyed.
2007
↖ Display Architecture
Terence Gower
Display Architecture is a survey of Terence Gower's recent work on modernist strategies of display and representation in architecture. The book is a hybrid between an artist publication and a catalogue of the artist's recent work.
2006
↖ Ciudad Moderna: Terence Gower Video Works
Terence Gower
The video Ciudad Moderna is a composite of clips taken from the popular Mexican film Despedida de Casada, released in 1966. The source film is treated as a document of the contemporary city, and is re-edited to show off the modern architecture of Mexico, such as the Museum of Anthropology, the apartment buildings of Avenida de la Reforma, and the Hotel Presidente in Acapulco.
2004
↖ 300 Tons and Previous Works
Santiago Sierra
300 Tons and Previous Projects features more than 80 of Santiago Sierra's works from 1989 to 2004, several of which are published here for the first time.
2003
↖ Documenting Three Interventions in a Space
Irene Kopelman
This publication is the documentation of Three Interventions in a Space (presented at the Open Studios at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in 2002), which shows every little unevenness on the walls, floor and plinths in the studio, by copying, mapping and drawing them.
2002
↖ Santiago Sierra | Works 2002 – 1990
Jonathan Watkins, Katya Gracia
Book by Spanish artist Santiago Sierra depicting his works from 1990 to 2002.Texts by: Jonathan Watkins, Katya Gracia.
2002
↖ Santiago Sierra | Works 2002 – 1990
Santiago Sierra
Book by Spanish artist Santiago Sierra depicting his works from 1990 to 2002.Texts by: Jonathan Watkins, Katya Gracia.
1999
↖ Appendices, Illustrations & Notes
Terence Gower, Monica de la Torre
Written as a satire of art writing, literary criticism, and psychoanalytic theory, the book mixes together original content by each author, plus new collaborative material. It takes the form of a (rejected) uncorrected proof of an appendix to another (nonexistent) volume and pays homage to some of overlooked genres of writing.
1992
↖ Effeuillage
Terence Gower
The artist’s very first work and a reference to his formation on the margins of the Vancouver photoconceptual scene, Enfeuilllage documents—in 24 photographs—a perfumery process known as enfleurage in which fat is used to absorb the scent of flowers and is then rendered as a liquid (perfume).