Julie Wolfe - Apophenia volume 02: Exquisite Corpse
| Author | Julie Wolfe |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Apophenia Press |
| ISBN | 9798987569511 |
| Idea Code | 250546 |
In this volume, the sequel to Wolfe’s 2023 'Apophenia', the artist homes in on modes of seduction, often in relation to personal identity. Drawing on conventional images of beauty – fashionable Western women, high classical art, exquisite botanicals, luxe objects – she simulates the visual excess of the beau ideal that surrounds us every day. What kind of perfection, what desired reality, do we strive for, she appears to ask, given the seemingly incidental but wholly deliberate images filtering through our world for constant consumption? Wolfe cuts through this noise with her layered gestures, slicing images and recombining them, or adding shadows or gloriously garish colors, creating surprising aberrations from accepted or established forms.
| 236 p, ills colour & bw, 26 x 33 cm, pb, English |
Apophenia Press