Collection 12.16
0, me and 1
Ruedi Baur
From 0 to 1, the systematic reduction of our society into a binary system takes on all its meaning. From the navel to the eye, space is both limited and excessive. When the book opens, it is to show the expanse and complexity of our daily environments. Fear, emptiness, blackness, words, lack of words, probing glances. Pernicious effects of our lifestyles and thoughts, the security paranoia brings us back to these individual spaces.
It alarms rather than reassures, locks up rather than protects. From the eye to the navel and from the body to the object, from me to ĞIğ and from the other to us, the distance which separates us from the world sets in.
Size : 120 x 160 / 120 pages / printed in black and color / ISBN : 2-909581-08-x/ 15/ Observatory publisher / december 1995 / distributed by LMX
Collection 12.16
In this collection, particular care has been taken to introduce precise points of view on the world as well as on current events. Confronted with a context which might encourage thrift and scarcity, the Observatory takes up the challenge by publishing books in a series of three, which deliberately have no flyleaf, hand or pocket size, light artists' books, yet with sharp content.
In this collection, particular care has been taken to introduce precise points of view on the world as well as on current events. Confronted with a context which might encourage thrift and scarcity, the Observatory takes up the challenge by publishing books in a series of three, which deliberately have no flyleaf, hand or pocket size, light artists' books, yet with sharp content.
