Co-published with Images Vevey This book of multivalent narratives began with a
simple premise: collecting of sheets of paper – ripped from books – featuring
multiple photographs and inlaid narratives. Across a decade of working on other
projects involving pulling images apart from one another, excising them from the
page, and recontextualizing them as new sets, American artist Carmen Winant
diligently collected disparate sheets, skimming them off the top of her other
ongoing collections. The book that has resulted from that work is wide-ranging
in terms of subject – with sheets depicting rabbinical study, dog training,
surgical birth, methods of tantric sex, patterns of the sunset – yet specific in
approach and application. Her constructed pages trouble how the idea of ‘theme’
operates as the engine of a book, instead taking the act of arranging, both in
discrete pages and as a whole, as its own meaningful subject.
