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At Once – Artist’s Book

Jul 23, 2014 - Anna Meschiari

[vimeo video_id="71808738" width="1000" height="563"] The series "At Once" has been conceived as an artist's book in a edition of 50. The book is presented unbounded and the cover, when opened, creates a poster of the double dimension of the publication. The picture on the inside of the cover reveals a character you cannot really classify: maybe a teenager, a girl, a boy. Conceiving the book during about six months could give me some distance to the images that I've made during one year. The result is a collage of pictures that are part of my archive. The way the photographs have a place in the book, reveals the necessity to narrate within the structure of it. The book is to me a way of thinking, a medium that helps me to cope the reality and give a response to it. The book allows the work to be seen from many people around the world. "At Once" had the chance to be presented at the Tokyo Art Book Fair 2013, Bergen Art Book Fair 2013, Vienna Photobook Festival 2014, Zines of the Zone mobile library, is part of a few collections and is making a big trip around the world in the Box of Dummies.