Michael Dean - Now Leaves

Michael Dean

€ 16.00

Publication in conjunction with the exhibition 'Jumping Bones' by Michael Dean at Extra City in March-July 2015.

NOW LEAVES presents itself as a block. Physically it adopts the scale of a human hand, its weight present, its structure flexible, almost human. The pages fall loosely apart to reveal dense black graphics – letters shaped as tongues, twisted to form barely legible words. Each page inscribed, playing on repetition, the word ‘leaves’ repeatedly tongued. The successive pages form statements, occasionally benign – it starts LEAVES FOR LEAVES – but as the pages turn a more visceral violence exudes from the pages – SLAVE LEAVES HAPPY LEAVES, FUCKING LEAVES LOST LEAVES KILL LEAVES, BLOODY LEAVES POSITION LEAVES.

12 x 17 cm
Book Works/Wysing Artrs Centre in collaboration with de Appel arts centre and Extra City Kunsthal
Book — ISBN: 9781 1 906012 717