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Hexamiles (Mont-Voisin)

Author(s): Suter, Batia

Designer(s): Suter, Batia; Willems, Roger

Language(s): English

Pages: 256

Year: 2019

Publisher: Roma Publications

City: Amsterdam

ISBN: 9789492811592

Abstract: For her solo exhibition at the Mauvoisin Dam in Switzerland in the summer of 2019, Suter focused on her ever-expanding archive of scanned landscape images, which had already started to play an important role in Parallel Encyclopedia #2 (ROMA 284, 2016). Many of those images depict wastelands, alternating between romantic and menacing views which simultaneously create sensations of majesty and disorientation. By layering them over each other, a variety of disparate geological and biological environments merge into composite landscapes we might only recognise from dreams and fairy tales. In the books sequence, a kind of adventurous journey takes shape, pitched between an odyssey, a safari and paradise. The book's title is derived from the term Hexameter, a poetic form of writing used in Homer's Odyssey. Mont-Voisin, which also serves as the title for the exhibition, is inspired by different spellings used by 18th and 19th century travellers to describe Mauvoisin.

Category: Art/Artist book

Contributor(s): Suter, Batia

Location: Arnhem

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