Book Launch, Melbourne Art Book Fair, NGV
Perimeter Editions is delighted to announce the long-awaited launch of Izabela Pluta's Figures of slippage and oscillation, the winner of the 2019 Perimeter Small Book Prize. Along with upcoming launches at the 2020 Melbourne Art Book Fair and Ariel Booksellers, Sydney, a special edition pre-order is now available.
MELBOURNE LAUNCH
Saturday March 14, 2pm–2.30pm
Perimeter stand, Melbourne Art Book Fair
National Gallery of Victoria
180 St Kilda Road
Southbank, VIC
Featuring a book signing by the artist.
Drawing on a series of darkroom contact prints titled Spatial misalignments – which were conceived by shining light through the pages of three long-out-of-print editions of The Reader’s Digest Great World Atlas – Sydney-based photographer and artist Izabela Pluta’s debut book bears witness to the turbulence, mutability and power structures that both prop up and undermine the static dogmas of the global map. In these richly and elusively detailed images, the world as we knew it blurs and collapses in on itself, flow and miasma gently erasing the borders and demarcations – the strategic fictions and mythologies – to which we’ve anchored our semantics of place.
Underscored by a collaborative text work by Melbourne poet Lisa Gorton and an experimental essay by Art Gallery of NSW Senior Curator of Contemporary Australian Art Isobel Parker Philip, Figures of slippage and oscillation reappraises our philosophical and conceptual grappling with geography and cartography. Here, the fog of arbitrariness bankrupts the law and lore of our oceans and lands; the echo of violence, migration and climatic shift belies our borders. In the process, Pluta whispers to the fragility of our geological, environmental and societal condition. As the oceans wash through our now quaint delineations, she archives our loss.
AU$48
88 pages, 32 x 24 cm, section sewn softcover with flaps
Perimeter Editions 051
Edition of 500
Special EditionThe artist and Perimeter Editions have produced a special edition of 20 copies amongst a wider print run of 500 copies of the book. The special edition is signed and numbered by the artist and includes a signed and editioned 30 x 42 cm, handprinted silver gelatin diptych print.
ISBN: 978-0-6486801-0-9
Publication date: March 2020
Printed by Wilco Art Books, The Netherlands
Published by Perimeter Editions
Melbourne, Australia
Editors: Justine Ellis and Dan Rule
Design: Sasha Taylor
Text: Lisa Gorton and Isobel Parker Philip
Copy Editor: Nadiah Abdulrahim
Editorial Assistance: Ash Holmes
Perimeter Small Book Prize Curatorium: Felix Wilson, Nadiah Abdulrahim, Emma Phillips, Justine Ellis & Dan Rule