Just released, this hand-made book features 40 photographs of the Vitrine Chair, alongside creative writing that includes a 38 page interview by Elysia in dialogue with the Vitrine Chair, each signed and numbered by the artist.
This approach of experimental writing became a tool for reflection that offers an intimate vignette into a multifaceted art practice that explores the object, materials, relations, time, memory, and the self.
This work began with a question, “Do I hold the object or does the object hold me?”, and ends in a question, leaving gaps for the reader’s own thoughts to arise. The book dances on the edges of our desire to transform, evolve, and be held.
Elysia is the author, editor, lead creative, and independent publisher of this limited edition hardcover volume.
Details:
ISNB:979-8-218-19674-5
Author, Editor, Lead Creative, Artist: Elysia Vandenbussche
Photography: Charles William Kelly
Graphic Design: Reed Smith
Measurements: 6.125 x 8.625 in
Pages: 194
Binding: Hardcover, side-sewn by hand
Cover materials: Arrestox cloth linen finish, blue headband, traditional archival construction.
Cover finishes: Custom die cuts made for blue foil stamping on front, back, spine.
Paper: Cougar 80# smooth
Printing: 4/4 Kodak full color process
Typeface: Licensed Certeau by A Practice For Everyday Life + Larken.
Publisher: Independently published by Elysia Vandenbussche 2023
Editions: 50
Language: English
A copy of M04 VITRINE CHAIR will be donated to the following:
Cranbrook Academy of Art Library, Bloomfield Hills, MI
Robert Wilson Archive, The Watermill Center, NY
College for Creative Studies Library, Detroit, MI
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