Page after page they undress. Their legs laying down gracefully on a bed, resting for eternity—so it seems. Others are standing up, can you feel the warmth coming out of their skin? It seems they are dancing together from scene to scene. Inviting you to join them. Their naked bodies find refuge between the paint strokes, next to the cardboards, under the pencil marks. They will not show us their eyes, we won’t know what their faces look like. They are only bodies. Yet, can’t you feel their glance, looking right through you.

First edition of 400 copies, numbered and signed.

Dirty Scenes by Katrien De Blauwer (b. 1969, Belgian) accompanies her exhibition Love Me Tender in Paris, France at Galerie Les Filles du Calvaire, May 18–June 15, 2019

Edition LIBRARYMAN 

Following her previous book When I Was a Boy, Katrien De Blauwer (b. 1969, Belgian) continues to explore her medium of « photography without a camera » in the monograph Why I Hate Cars. After studies in painting and fashion, De Blauwer began delving into a wayward artistic practice by collecting imagery from old magazines and newspapers — as a therapeutic self investigation, of which became the foundation of her work. In creating her own collages, De Blauwer reveals an inner realm as she initiate anonymous and cinematic narrations. In this particular work, she began experimenting with paint and crayons — bearing an additional layer of colors to the stories she tells.

The book contains an excerpt written by Katrien De Blauwer, taken from one of her notebooks.

First edition of 1,000 copies. Special edition of 50 copies, numbered, in paperboard slipcase, screen printed in white, with signed and hand-drawn original print. Choice of 5 prints — 10 copies of each print.

Why I Hate Cars accompanies her exhibition Love Me Tender in Paris, France at Galerie Les Filles du Calvaire, May 18–June 15, 2019.

Edition LIBRARYMAN 

Katrien De Blauwer se désigne elle même comme une « photographe sans appareil ». L’artiste belge collecte et recycle images et photos issues de vieux magazines ou de journaux et crée à partir de ces fragments d’image d’étonnants collages évocateurs remettant au premier plan ces souvenirs effacés. Son travail est exposé dans toute l’Europe, figure dans de nombreuses publications, et est souvent mis en valeur par le New York Times.

Danny Clay est un compositeur et sculpteur de sons originaire de l’Ohio et résidant à San Francisco. L’artiste utilise des formes sonores diverses – objets trouvé, jouets musicaux, chutes analogiques ou numériques; etc. Sa musique a été éditée par Hibernate Recordings, Patient Sounds, Unknow Tone Records, Phiney, Parlour Tapes+ et Eilean Rec., entre autres.

STILLS est le fruit du dialogue entre les deux artistes.

Edition IIKKI

Giuliana Prucca (Avarie) and me worked together on this book. The selection of collages explores the connection with Italian film director Michelangelo Antonioni.

The book was printed on two kinds of paper. At the end and the beginning of the book there where text fragments on fold out pages. The middle part of the book consisited of blow ups of the back sides of my work.

The book was printed on 750 copies and 50 of them where made into special editions. These copies have an original double page work in analogy with the notebooks in them and are signed, numbered and stamped.

Edition Avarie

A small book by Irish based Redfoxx Press in a limited edition of 100 numbered copies.

Edition Redfoxx Press