Der Parasit / The Parasite (signed)
by Sophie Tiller
Photographs: Sophie Tiller
Text: Katharina Manojlovic
Publisher: Album Verlag
240 pages
Year: 2018
ISBN: 978-3-85164-199-8
Price: 59 €
Comments: Hardcover, Edition of 300, 20 x 24 cm
The book DER PARASIT/THE PARASITE shows works of the artist Sophie Tiller that were produced during a long-term project.
"The basic idea is to create something real out of our knowledge again, to morph its abstractness into a physical appearance.
My series of works called "The Parasite" is an ongoing project that started in 2008.
It consists of various natural history books, in which I drill wholes, fill them with earth and insert monks cress. This process of seeding a lifeform into books is planned beforehand, but over time plants - "parasites" - are settling in the books naturally, eliminating the cress step by step. Over time, the books also attract worms, snails and various microbes that are settling in their new found habitat, creating what I then documents in my photographies.
Each of the images of my "Parasites" show one transitional stage of the books with no documentary background, only presenting one state of becoming and decaying. The books come to life, create their own appearances and interact with life organisms, through parasites invading the host, soaking up its content and changing the materiality and the function of a book. This stands for the chaos and irrationality of life, showing its illogicality and randomness. It works as a metaphor for the human body and the knowledge we acquired over the past centuries that was transmitted through books and remains. They, and our corpses respectively, will decay eventually, but new seeds will always be spreading, creating the basis of life and knowledge anew.
We can see a stilllife of life, one phase in the ongoing process of growing and decaying, which inevitably hints at spring and fall. Last but not least, plan versus coincidence, which is the contradiction. I leave the outcome solely to nature and chance, which both will eventually find a form that I cannot influence."
more books tagged » documentary« | >> see all
-
Ferdinand Schmutzer - A Photographic Discovery (review copy)
by Regina Maria Anzenberger
Euro 75 37.50 -
Ville De Calais (last copy)
by Henk Wildschut
Euro 66 -
Rift/Fault
by Marion Belanger
Euro 75 -
Field Studies
by Chrystel Lebas
sold out -
Absentia
by Laura Barrón
sold out -
Untitled
by Shin Yanagisawa
Euro 68 34.00
more books tagged »nature« | >> see all
-
Cottonwoods
by Robert Adams
sold out -
Orion Collector's edition (signed - book + print)
by Christopher De Béthune
sold out -
Il Cretto Grande (signed - last copy)
by Massimo Siragusa
Euro 52 -
Merrie Albion (signed)
by Simon Roberts
Euro 59 41.30 -
An Old Forest Road
by Robert Adams
sold out -
La trajectoire du Gyrovague (signed)
by Constantin Schlachter
Euro 49
more books tagged »Austrian« | >> see all
-
Goosewalk (signed - last copies)
by Regina Anzenberger
Euro 65 -
Goosewalk (signed - review copy)
by Regina Anzenberger
Euro 65 45.50 -
Momentum (signed)
by Andreas H. Bitesnich
Euro 250 -
Goosewalk - Collector's Edition II (book + print)
by Regina Anzenberger
Euro 140 -
The Arsenic Eaters (signed)
by Simon Brugner
sold out -
Goosewalk - Collector's Edition I (book + print - last two cop...
by Regina Anzenberger
Euro 350
Random selection from the Virtual bookshelf josefchladek.com
Der Parasit / The Parasite (signed)
by Sophie Tiller
Photographs: Sophie Tiller
Text: Katharina Manojlovic
Publisher: Album Verlag
240 pages
Year: 2018
ISBN: 978-3-85164-199-8
Price: 59 €
Comments: Hardcover, Edition of 300, 20 x 24 cm
The book DER PARASIT/THE PARASITE shows works of the artist Sophie Tiller that were produced during a long-term project.
"The basic idea is to create something real out of our knowledge again, to morph its abstractness into a physical appearance.
My series of works called "The Parasite" is an ongoing project that started in 2008.
It consists of various natural history books, in which I drill wholes, fill them with earth and insert monks cress. This process of seeding a lifeform into books is planned beforehand, but over time plants - "parasites" - are settling in the books naturally, eliminating the cress step by step. Over time, the books also attract worms, snails and various microbes that are settling in their new found habitat, creating what I then documents in my photographies.
Each of the images of my "Parasites" show one transitional stage of the books with no documentary background, only presenting one state of becoming and decaying. The books come to life, create their own appearances and interact with life organisms, through parasites invading the host, soaking up its content and changing the materiality and the function of a book. This stands for the chaos and irrationality of life, showing its illogicality and randomness. It works as a metaphor for the human body and the knowledge we acquired over the past centuries that was transmitted through books and remains. They, and our corpses respectively, will decay eventually, but new seeds will always be spreading, creating the basis of life and knowledge anew.
We can see a stilllife of life, one phase in the ongoing process of growing and decaying, which inevitably hints at spring and fall. Last but not least, plan versus coincidence, which is the contradiction. I leave the outcome solely to nature and chance, which both will eventually find a form that I cannot influence."
more books tagged » documentary« | >> see all
-
Ferdinand Schmutzer - A Photographic Discovery (review copy)
by Regina Maria Anzenberger
Euro 75 37.50 -
Ville De Calais (last copy)
by Henk Wildschut
Euro 66 -
Rift/Fault
by Marion Belanger
Euro 75 -
Field Studies
by Chrystel Lebas
sold out -
Absentia
by Laura Barrón
sold out -
Untitled
by Shin Yanagisawa
Euro 68 34.00
more books tagged »nature« | >> see all
-
Cottonwoods
by Robert Adams
sold out -
Orion Collector's edition (signed - book + print)
by Christopher De Béthune
sold out -
Il Cretto Grande (signed - last copy)
by Massimo Siragusa
Euro 52 -
Merrie Albion (signed)
by Simon Roberts
Euro 59 41.30 -
An Old Forest Road
by Robert Adams
sold out -
La trajectoire du Gyrovague (signed)
by Constantin Schlachter
Euro 49
more books tagged »Austrian« | >> see all
-
Goosewalk (signed - last copies)
by Regina Anzenberger
Euro 65 -
Goosewalk (signed - review copy)
by Regina Anzenberger
Euro 65 45.50 -
Momentum (signed)
by Andreas H. Bitesnich
Euro 250 -
Goosewalk - Collector's Edition II (book + print)
by Regina Anzenberger
Euro 140 -
The Arsenic Eaters (signed)
by Simon Brugner
sold out -
Goosewalk - Collector's Edition I (book + print - last two cop...
by Regina Anzenberger
Euro 350
Random selection from the Virtual bookshelf josefchladek.com
Der Parasit / The Parasite (signed)
by Sophie Tiller
Photographs: Sophie Tiller
Text: Katharina Manojlovic
Publisher: Album Verlag
240 pages
Year: 2018
ISBN: 978-3-85164-199-8
Price: 59 €
Comments: Hardcover, Edition of 300, 20 x 24 cm
The book DER PARASIT/THE PARASITE shows works of the artist Sophie Tiller that were produced during a long-term project.
"The basic idea is to create something real out of our knowledge again, to morph its abstractness into a physical appearance.
My series of works called "The Parasite" is an ongoing project that started in 2008.
It consists of various natural history books, in which I drill wholes, fill them with earth and insert monks cress. This process of seeding a lifeform into books is planned beforehand, but over time plants - "parasites" - are settling in the books naturally, eliminating the cress step by step. Over time, the books also attract worms, snails and various microbes that are settling in their new found habitat, creating what I then documents in my photographies.
Each of the images of my "Parasites" show one transitional stage of the books with no documentary background, only presenting one state of becoming and decaying. The books come to life, create their own appearances and interact with life organisms, through parasites invading the host, soaking up its content and changing the materiality and the function of a book. This stands for the chaos and irrationality of life, showing its illogicality and randomness. It works as a metaphor for the human body and the knowledge we acquired over the past centuries that was transmitted through books and remains. They, and our corpses respectively, will decay eventually, but new seeds will always be spreading, creating the basis of life and knowledge anew.
We can see a stilllife of life, one phase in the ongoing process of growing and decaying, which inevitably hints at spring and fall. Last but not least, plan versus coincidence, which is the contradiction. I leave the outcome solely to nature and chance, which both will eventually find a form that I cannot influence."
more books tagged » documentary« | >> see all
-
Ferdinand Schmutzer - A Photographic Discovery (review copy)
by Regina Maria Anzenberger
Euro 75 37.50 -
Ville De Calais (last copy)
by Henk Wildschut
Euro 66 -
Rift/Fault
by Marion Belanger
Euro 75 -
Field Studies
by Chrystel Lebas
sold out -
Absentia
by Laura Barrón
sold out -
Untitled
by Shin Yanagisawa
Euro 68 34.00
more books tagged »nature« | >> see all
-
Cottonwoods
by Robert Adams
sold out -
Orion Collector's edition (signed - book + print)
by Christopher De Béthune
sold out -
Il Cretto Grande (signed - last copy)
by Massimo Siragusa
Euro 52 -
Merrie Albion (signed)
by Simon Roberts
Euro 59 41.30 -
An Old Forest Road
by Robert Adams
sold out -
La trajectoire du Gyrovague (signed)
by Constantin Schlachter
Euro 49
more books tagged »Austrian« | >> see all
-
Goosewalk (signed - last copies)
by Regina Anzenberger
Euro 65 -
Goosewalk (signed - review copy)
by Regina Anzenberger
Euro 65 45.50 -
Momentum (signed)
by Andreas H. Bitesnich
Euro 250 -
Goosewalk - Collector's Edition II (book + print)
by Regina Anzenberger
Euro 140 -
The Arsenic Eaters (signed)
by Simon Brugner
sold out -
Goosewalk - Collector's Edition I (book + print - last two cop...
by Regina Anzenberger
Euro 350
Random selection from the Virtual bookshelf josefchladek.com