A bookshop
in many parts
SHOP PART I
ABOUT
SHIPPING
CONTACT
Blue Flower Texts
can be found at
Natural Hand in
Lyttelton
10 Oxford St
T 4pm-7pm
F 9am-7pm
S 9am-4pm
A bookshop in
many parts
SHOP PART I
ABOUT
SHIPPING
CONTACT
Blue Flower Texts
can be found at
Natural Hand in
Lyttelton
10 Oxford St
T 4pm-7pm
F 9am-7pm
S 9am-4pm
GO AS YOU PLEASE:
ANN-SOFIE BACK, 1998-2018
$120.00
Art & Theory Publishing
320 pages, hardcover with colour images
9789198870572
There's this image I love, of a woman striding down a street with a perfect grey skirt, white turtleneck and giant IKEA bag slung over her shoulder. It's an Ann-Sofie Back image, singular and Swedish. Go As You Please is a publication that resulted from her eponymous archive exhibition, the title stolen from a funeral parlour's website that Back was drawn to for the way it also read like a dress code. The funeral became the framework fro this final act of Back's career and it's a sensitive methodology, because instead of the ego mode that often underscores these retrospectives, the publication feels like looking back on a life and remembering the ordinary interetsting things as well. I love Ann-Sofie Back's clothing because of the way they are kind of awkward and elegant and rebellious all at once. A record that feels so final, obituary to self, 30 years of work here on these pages then up in flames.
ANN-SOFIE BACK, 1998-2018
$120.00
Art & Theory Publishing
320 pages, hardcover with colour images
9789198870572
There's this image I love, of a woman striding down a street with a perfect grey skirt, white turtleneck and giant IKEA bag slung over her shoulder. It's an Ann-Sofie Back image, singular and Swedish. Go As You Please is a publication that resulted from her eponymous archive exhibition, the title stolen from a funeral parlour's website that Back was drawn to for the way it also read like a dress code. The funeral became the framework fro this final act of Back's career and it's a sensitive methodology, because instead of the ego mode that often underscores these retrospectives, the publication feels like looking back on a life and remembering the ordinary interetsting things as well. I love Ann-Sofie Back's clothing because of the way they are kind of awkward and elegant and rebellious all at once. A record that feels so final, obituary to self, 30 years of work here on these pages then up in flames.
