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Hello, We have also recently launched a poster project, What Did You Do….? featuring work from Cecilia Vicuña, Jeremy Deller, Jesse Darling, Charlie Prodger and many more. See more about that here. Cecilia Vicuña – Saborami: Extended facsimile editionPublished on 1 March, 2024 ‘An account of political struggle and precarious beauty…today Saborami offers us a delicate, undying vision of collective renewal at a time of desperation, when fury and sorrow might seem the only possible responses.’ – Henry Broome, BOMB Magazine Cecilia Vicuña created Saborami in the aftermath of the September 1973 military coup in Chile. Combining poetry, journal entries, documentation of artworks including assemblages and paintings, the book was published in Devon, England in an edition of 250 hand-made copies by the artist-led Beau Geste Press. It was one of the first artistic responses to the violence of the fascist junta, and also stands as a record of Vicuña’s early work Decades ahead of its time in its vision of a warm, embodied socialist, ecofeminist and indigenous politics. In recent years, Vicuña has gained increasing renown, winning the Golden Lion for lifetime achievement at the Venice Bienniale in 2022, and with installations at the Guggenheim (2022); and Tate Modern (2023). Saborami is one of her most important works, made at a turning point in her life and career, and reverberating through to the present day. Though the book is highly regarded, it has also been hard to access. This new, expanded facsimile edition remedies this oversight, and restates Saborami as a central example of artistic engagement in material and revolutionary resistance. Coinciding with the fiftieth anniversary of the book’s original publication and of the coup in Chile, this expanded edition contains a new introduction by art historian and curator Amy Tobin and poet and writer Luke Roberts. It includes rarely seen archival material from Vicuña’s time in London, such as contributions to the feminist newspaper Spare Rib, commentary from BBC coverage, and her role in Artists for Democracy in Chile and other solidarity campaigns. Cecilia Vicuña is an internationally renowned visual artist and poet. Born in Chile in 1948, she lived in England between 1972 and 1975. After a period in Bogota, Colombia, she settled in New York City, where she lives and works today. At the Venice Biennale in 2022 she won the Golden Lion award for Lifetime Achievement. Arrhythmia series: first two novels publishedIn 2021, we put out a call for a new open submission series, Arrhythmia, guest-edited by artist Katrina Palmer. We received over 200 submissions, and commissioned four new works. We are delighted to be publishing the first of these, The Wastes by Roy Claire Potter by , Roy Claire Potter and Alice Walter and we are delighted to be publishing The Wastes and The Medium in June, (the other two commissions, by Andrew E. Colarusso and Kamwangi Njue will be published later in the year. with the other two coming later in the year. Katrina Palmer is an artist and writer, living in London. She is the author of The Dark Object (2010), The Fabricators Tale (2014), End Matter (2015) and Black Slit (2023), all published by Book Works. She has exhibited extensively, including with an Artangel Open commission (2015), at Henry Moore Institute (2015-16), Yorkshire Sculpture Park (2018), and with Estuary and Waterfronts (2021). She received the Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award for Artists (2014). In 2024 she is Artist in Residence at the National Gallery.
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