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Mariken WesselsElisabeth - I want to eat (SIGNED)

Mariken Wessels – Elisabeth - I want to eat (SIGNED)

Photographs: Mariken Wessels

Publisher: Alauda publications

80 pages

Year: 2010

Price: € 50

Elisabeth - I want to eat - consists of a collection of anonymous photographs, letters and postcards belonging to a young woman, which the artist stumbled upon in a shop in the Hendrik Jacobszstraat in Amsterdam. The found material was appropriated by photographing the images, creatively processing and arranging them, as well as occasionally adding other material. 

The photographs depict a young woman defiantly posing in front of the camera, both figuratively and literally exposing herself. The black and white photographs are worn out, frayed by numerous scratches and dust particles, blending together both the exaltation and melancholy recorded in them.

Apart from the photographs, the book carries a series of printed postcards and letters addressed to Elisabeth, from which the reader gradually infers that her life was thrown off track in some way. ‘Religion, order, discipline, detachment from the quest for ambition’ – these are, in brief, the ingredients of advice with which a family member proposes to ‘heal’ her. Yet the person giving her advice himself tells no straightforward story. One is in fact left wondering which of the two people is more bizarre.

Softcover, 33 x 24 cm. Second edition (first one self published in 2008). Text in English, including the 5 loosing translation sheets. B&W photographs. Concept and design Mariken Wessels. In very good condition with moderate wear dirt on the cover. Signed and dated in 2011 by the artist.
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