Renee Green: Inevitable Distances

Renée Green's artistic practice explores how art can surface and give form to underwritten histories, collective memory, and cultural exchange. Her work has circulated within the social and political flows between the world and the Americas, investigating the distribution and relay of art and ideas and how these are braided with histories of migration and legacies of displacement. This book is co-published by DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program, Berlin; Hatje Cantz; and KW Institute for Contemporary Art.

Format: Hardback
Length: 256 pages
Publication date: 24 March 2022
Publisher: Hatje Cantz

Renée Greens multifaceted practice has envisioned and expanded the ways in which art can surface and give form to underwritten histories, collective memory, and circuits of cultural exchange. Her writing, installations, films, digital media, and sound works continue to trace and interrogate the power of cultural institutions and their relationships to language, knowledge, and constitutions of selfhood, while at the same time, indicating other ways of being and becoming. Greens work came to prominence and circulated within the social and political flows between the world and the Americas, a concept that includes the United States, Central and South America, as well as the Caribbean. Her practice continues to investigate the distribution and relay of art and ideas, and how these are braided with histories of migration and legacies of displacement, and the aesthetic forms and poetics that stem from these. In one of the most comprehensive catalogues of her work since 2010, Inevitable Distances presents recent writing on Greens work with some of Greens early texts and influences. Indicating the encounters and distances travelled in a life journey, both this publication and the exhibition it catalogs puts her artistic production into a speculative and, at times, fictional constellation. This book is co-published by DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program, Berlin; Hatje Cantz; and KW Institute for Contemporary Art.

Weight: 730g
Dimension: 332 x 285 x 25 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9783775750615