Translations

Artist's writings.

The Photograph Looked Back at Me is a series of prose miniatures, each born from an image the author cannot turn away from: a ghostly plant printed in a book about Chernobyl; a miner's face obscured by smoke, hanging in a Kyiv gallery; a picture of Katja Petrowskaja's parents, from an old family album.

A pioneering study of the relation between the fine arts and philosophy in France, from the aftermath of the 1789 revolution to the end of the nineteenth century, when a philosophy of being called "monism"—the concept of a unity of matter and spirit—emerged and became increasingly popular among intellectuals, artists and scientists.

A novel about the coming-of-age of a gaze.

The English translation of Matthieu Peck's third novel, in which he confirms his talent as a stylist.

A collection of poetic, dreamlike and synesthetic texts by the Polish writer and artist.

An aesthetic and political reflection on contemporary monumental and commemorative art, at a time of critical revision of history.

Eyal and Ines Weizman explore the history of the before-and-after image, from its origins in 19th-century Paris to today's satellite surveillance.

The first collection by award-winning performance artist/poet Justin Chin.

The choreographic in cinema.