- Gallery artist Fiona Connor has a new monograph published by June 20th.
Fiona Connor, +1 310 951 9459 features texts by Jan Bryant, Travis Diehl, Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer, Kimberli Meyer.
Designed by Fount–via, printed in Aosta, Italy.
The essays in this book address a number of vital, recurring concerns in Fiona Connor’s sculptural practice: the social life and psychological life of the object, the politics of camouflage and mimesis, and the ethics and aesthetics of the built environment. Crucially, this volume also works the folds of that practice, to give visibility to the artist’s collaborative activities and productive affiliations.
The cover of this book is a gesture symptomatic of Connor’s approach; it is both oblique and intimate, and it demands we pay a different kind of attention to what is in front of us. It also signals a fascination with reproduction and documentation as a tactic to disrupt the processes of perception, and to bring things closer. The photograph is a portrait of Alex North, a photographer, a friend of Fiona’s, taken by his mother, also a photographer. The title of the book is a phone number belonging to another of the artist’s friends and collaborators; one of the designers of this publication. It is placed under the artist’s own name, the direct dial of a colleague who is also an author of this project.
How is the artwork produced, distributed, interpreted, received? What is the nature of its afterlife? How does one recognise the incumbent web of social relations and labor that supports artistic production? What does it mean when such a process is obscured, or at worst obliterated, by its product?
—Sarah Hopkinson
June 20th is a publishing and distribution project based in Tāmaki-Makaurau Auckland and Los Angeles.
Fiona Connor, +1 310 951 9459
Published by June 20th
April 2020
ISBN: 978-0-473-49434-6
Texts by Sarah Lehrer Graiwer, Travis Diehl, Jan Bryant, and Kimberli Meyer.
Dual Softcover | 164 pages | Colour & Black/white images | English | Edition: 1000 | Dimensions: 8.9 x 11.2 x 0.6 inches | Weight: 900 gm
USD 45 | NZD 75
Please contact the gallery to purchase a copy. info@mossman.gallery