DO HANDS HOLD OR
ARE THEY HELD?
** special edition with printed vinyl gloves
Edition of 50
Risograph printed at RCA London
Hand binded with cotton thread
This book is not a book, but a device for holding your hands. The book explores how touch mediates our relationship with the world and the systems that shape it, and how the act of touching and being touched becomes a negotiation between agency and dependence within the daily choreographies we perform.
This book marks the beginning of my formal exploration into the artist book as a conceptual device, applying a sculptural approach to bookmaking and understanding books as an open field for relations.
The book costs 20€ + shipping / special edition 25€ + shipping
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DO YOU PAINT OR DO YOU DRAW?
Edition of 50
Risograph printed in Berlin / 2023
Hand binded with cotton thread
Do you paint or do you draw? is an artist book that explores the tension between time and an artist’s productivity within now a day’s capitalistic values. The narrative is divided into two parts; a dialogue that is held in the public sphere which is taken from real life conversations and is written with a tint of sarcasm and an inner talk of an artist which is an intimate poetic short text.
This is a thought-provoking piece that challenges the pre-vailing capitalist notions of art and the confronting nature of being an artist in a society driven by economic values. It invites to reflect upon what artists time is invested in and poses questions over the encounter between the insides of an artists process and the public sphere.How can an artist explain her/his own practice in today’s context?
inquiries by email hello@helenaospinalizarralde.com