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November 2022

Coming up for air: A Retrospective

Coinciding with Arnolfini’s major autumn exhibition Coming up for Air: Stephen Gill – A Retrospective (16 October 2021 to 16 January 2022), this enthralling publication encompasses over 40 years of practice (from 1982 to 2021), featuring some of Gill’s first photographs (taken as a child), selected images from Gill’s best-known series but also the lesser-known one's like: Invisible, Russian Women Smokers and Audio Portraits, and early images of Bristol, where Gill was born. Published by Gill’s Nobody Book
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November 2021

AMMA

A Myth of Two Souls (2013-2021) is inspired by the epic tale The Ramayana. Drawing inspiration from the imagery associated with this myth and its pervasiveness in everyday Indian life, Vasantha Yogananthan has retraced the legendary route from Nepal to India to Sri Lanka. First recorded by the Sanskrit poet Valmiki around 300 BC, The Ramayana has been continuously rewritten and reinterpreted, and continues to evolve today. Yogananthan’s series is informed by the notion of
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March 2020

PHOTOBOOK – L’IMMAGINE DI UN’IMMAGINE

How do you read photography on the pages of a book? What is the link and what is the difference between an artist's book and a photo book? What relationship is established today between the book as an object and the computer devices that intervene not only in common photographic practice (from reflex cameras to compact cameras to cell phones and smartphones) but also in the design, creation and dissemination of the book itself? T
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November 2022

How to Raise a Hand

How to Raise a Hand is a work shaped by mourning and by the finding of a box containing 313 cutout photographs of the artist’s dead father’s fingers. This discovery led Angelo Vignali to reshape this material to restore a dialogue with his father, bringing back his presence through his hands. He found himself working with countless fragments impossible to piece together to restore the body in its unity. And yet, a new t
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May 2020

PROVISIONAL LIFE

Provisional Life is a photobook about people who had to flee their homeland and live in a refugee home in Germany. The pictures are taken over a period of three years and are portraits of the inhabitants, photographs of their daily life and the rooms they lived in. The living space allocated to an individual or family is limited and the furniture is standardized. To be able to feel at home the inhabitants are cre
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March 2021

The object of Zionism

The Object of Zionism: The Architecture of Israel is a critical study of Zionist spatial planning and the architectural fabrication of the State of Israel from the early decades of the twentieth century to the 1960s and 1970s. It scrutinizes Israel as a singular modernist project—unprecedented in its relative scope and rates of growth, its political and ethical circumstances, and its hyper-production of spatial and structural experiments. This project entailed the molding of a n
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