Ann Hamilton: Sense

Ann Hamilton's book art is a collection of photographic portraits, lens-less contact scans, and objects from personal and institutional collections, printed on paper made from Japanese shrubs. It emphasizes the tactile nature of its substrate and Hamiltons material hand, creating an almost filmlike cadence that renders the felt qualities of touch.

Format: Hardback
Length: 176 pages
Publication date: 14 February 2023
Publisher: Radius Books

This magnificent piece of book art, which was printed on paper made from Japanese shrubs, showcases American artist Ann Hamilton's fascination with tactility. Throughout her practice, Ann Hamilton (born 1956) has incorporated videos and still images into her larger installation works, although they have rarely been the sole focus of a project. This publication brings together vocabulary from four bodies of image-based work produced over the last five years, including photographic portraits, lens-less contact scans of ornithological taxidermy, fabrics, and garments, and objects from various personal and institutional collections. Reprocessed through multiple printings on tissue Gampi and newsprint, the images emphasize the tactile nature of their substrate and Hamilton's material hand. The works physical presence is reinforced by the textured surface of the books pages and scale shifts. This volume thus becomes an art object of its own; repetition, the atmospheric nature of the images shallow depths of field, and the intuitive connections made between different bodies of work create an almost filmlike cadence that renders the felt qualities of touch.

This magnificent piece of book art, which was printed on paper made from Japanese shrubs, showcases American artist Ann Hamilton's fascination with tactility. Throughout her practice, Ann Hamilton (born 1956) has incorporated videos and still images into her larger installation works, although they have rarely been the sole focus of a project. This publication brings together vocabulary from four bodies of image-based work produced over the last five years, including photographic portraits, lens-less contact scans of ornithological taxidermy, fabrics, and garments, and objects from various personal and institutional collections. Reprocessed through multiple printings on tissue Gampi and newsprint, the images emphasize the tactile nature of their substrate and Hamilton's material hand. The works physical presence is reinforced by the textured surface of the books pages and scale shifts. This volume thus becomes an art object of its own; repetition, the atmospheric nature of the images shallow depths of field, and the intuitive connections made between different bodies of work create an almost filmlike cadence that renders the felt qualities of touch.

Weight: 1226g
Dimension: 278 x 226 x 31 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781942185802