Midway | Mónica Bengoa, John Yau

 

Artists’ book produced by Gervais Jassaud as part of ‘Collectif Generation’, an editorial project in which an artist is invited to intervene copies of a book edited by Jassaud, these copies contain the text of a writer previously invited to collaborate as well.

In Midway the texts of John Yau, Asian descendant poet from the United States, are combined with the manual work of Mónica Bengoa in a multiple direction layout, thus generating a reading which is as particular as the poems it contains and the nature of the interventions it supports.

 

$750,000 Pesos chilenos (CLP)

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Weight 1 kg
Dimensions 25.5 × 33 × 1 cm
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About the author

About the author

Monica Bengoa (1969, Santiago, Chile) is a Chilean visual artist, whose artistic research has established a working process, around the problem of the material expansion of the everyday life, using transference strategies of photographical images to great murals, by manual means. In this manner, she has established material interchange bridges with other media and supports, employing formal strategies coming from drawing and painting, including the use of objects. 

Artists’ book produced by Gervais Jassaud as part of ‘Collectif Generation’, an editorial project in which an artist is invited to intervene copies of a book edited by Jassaud, these copies contain the text of a writer previously invited to collaborate as well.

In Midway the texts of John Yau, Asian descendant poet from the United States, are combined with the manual work of Mónica Bengoa in a multiple direction layout, thus generating a reading which is as particular as the poems it contains and the nature of the interventions it supports.

 

Technical Specifications

Authors: Mónica Bengoa, John Yau

Format: 44 pages of chiffon BFK Rives paper intervened with different techniques as dyed, woven and dye-cut by hand.

Publisher: Collectif Génération

Dimensions: 25,5 x 33 cm 

Print run: 12 numbered and signed copies

Language: English

Collections: Koninklijke Bibliotheek (National Library of the Netherlands)

Year of publication: 2017

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