Art & travel / displacement / exile / migration / nomadism

 
 
Alessandro Bosetti - African Feedback (+ CD)
2007
English edition
Errant Bodies - Audio Issues
(last copies available!)
Audio project documenting the artist's travels in West Africa, pursuing cultural differences, the place of music, and the languages used to get at sound. Includes texts and audio CD.
Christophe Rey - Dragon bec verseur - 108 fragments à propos d\'un voyage dans l\'Est des Etats-Unis
2005
French edition
CEC (Centre d'édition contemporaine)
108 textual fragments of a journey through the Eastern United States.
Terminal 5
2004
English edition
Sternberg Press - Catalogues
39.00 15.00 €
Catalogue of an exhibition at the JFK airport, closed by the authorities just after the opening night party (with Vanessa Beecroft, Douglas Coupland, Kendell Geers, Dan Graham, Fabrice Gygi, Mark Handforth, Ryoji Ikeda, Jonathan Monk, Tom Sachs...).
Esther Hoareau - Ocean Camp
2004
French edition
Cneai
An imaginary odyssey through Réunion Island and Antarctica, inspired by the life of explorer Ernest Shackleton.
 Documentation Céline Duval - Les images de Guy - Reculer pour mieux aimer
2004
French edition
Cneai
A series of nostalgic family photographs set in exteriors with protagonists shot from behind.
Rosalba Carriera - Journal pendant mon séjour à Paris en 1720-1721
1997
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Misceallenous
The journal of one of the first women artists of the history of painting.
La Déconniatrie - Art, exil et psychiatrie autour de François Tosquelles
2021
French edition
various
sold out
The catalog of the international exhibition initiated at Les Abattoirs reveals a little-known story that was a milestone in 20th century psychiatry and its new links with art brut and modern art, taking as its starting point the career of the Catalan psychiatrist François Tosquelles (1912-1994).
David Wojnarowicz - A Slow Boat To China
2021
bilingual edition (English / French)
Is-Land
sold out
This publication brings together photographs taken by Marion Scemama during a trip through the American desert with David Wojnarowicz, shortly before his death. It features documents from Scemama's personal archives and notes from Wojnarowicz's diary, along with texts by Thibault Boulvain and Elisabeth Lebovici.
Giovanna Silva - Roma - Never Walk on Crowded Streets
2021
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Nero
sold out
The Milanese photographer and long-distance traveler captures the light (and visual contrasts) of Rome while walking through the city.
Julian Charrière - Towards No Earthly Pole
2021
bilingual edition (English / German)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
sold out
Julian Charrière's filmic journey to some of the most inhospitable areas of our planet.
Anna-Eva Bergman - Passages
2019
French edition
Fondation Hartung Bergman
sold out
Catalogue of the exhibition gathering a set of eighty works, on canvas or paper, in small and very large formats, that Anna-Eva Bergman created in the wake of her two travels to northern Norway, in 1950 and 1964, from which emerges a plastic language that signs the whole of his future work.
Philippe Dudouit - The Dynamics of Dust
2019
French edition
Edition Patrick Frey
sold out
A long-term photographic study on the sociopolitical evolution of the Sahelo-Saharan region since 2008.
Jean-François Bory - Capitale de la pluie
2019
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Misceallenous
various
sold out
A disappointing trip to Manaus capital of the Amazon during the rainy season becomes the opportunity for Jean-François Bory to deploy a text in lush color of vegetal letters.
Cloe Piccoli - Palazzo Abatellis Palermo
2019
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Humboldt Books - Globetrotter
sold out
A contemporary narrative, an artist's book, a surprising journey into a place that we thought we knew.
Anna-Eva Bergman - Casseroles - Recettes du monde entier
2019
French edition
Fondation Hartung Bergman
sold out
Recipes from all over the world: an illustrated cookbook by Anna-Eva Bergman, published for the first time.
Lori Waxman - Keep Walking Intently - The Ambulatory Art of the Surrealists, the Situationist International, and Fluxus
2018
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
sold out
An historical account of walking as an artistic practice inside Surrealism, the Situationist International, and Fluxus.
Félicia Atkinson - Ambient Park
2017
English edition
Shelter Press - Books
sold out
Ricocheting quietly between photographic landscapes, drawn abstractions and poetic recollections, this artist's book assumes the form of a deferred performance. Serving as a kind of response to the French artist and experimental musician's recent sonic and visual output, the book comprises a series of film stills shot during her travels to New Mexico and Arizona, overlaid with a collection of at once crude and delicate drawings made in Australia.
Laurence Rasti - There Are No Homosexuals in Iran
2017
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
sold out
For two years, Laurence Rasti photographed Iranian homosexual refugees who transit through the city of Denizli in Turkey, waiting to join a host country where to live their sexuality freely. The resulting photographic series explores the sensitive concepts of identity and gender, while juxtaposing the gravity of the situation with lighter and hopeful moments.
Olafur Eliasson - Green light - An artistic workshop
2017
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
sold out
This publication documents Eliasson's Green light project —an artistic workshop for refugees, asylum seekers, migrants, and NGOs, whose goal is to fabricate lamps for fundraising education. It provides testimonies, stories, and memories by Green light participants, founders, and organizers, as well as essays by art historians and theorists.
Cultures of the Curatorial - Hospitality – Hosting Relations in Exhibitions
2017
English edition
Sternberg Press - Cultures of the Curatorial
sold out
This publication analyzes, from the perspective of hospitality, the curatorial within the current sociopolitical context through key topics concerning immigration, conditions along borders, and accommodations for refugees.
Leon Kahane - Ars viva 2017
2016
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press - Catalogues
sold out
Catalogue of the Ars viva Prize who has been awarded annually since 1953 to young artists living in Germany whose work stands out for its innovative potential and high artistic quality. The recipients of the 2017 prize are Jan Paul Evers, Leon Kahane, and Jumana Manna.
Giovanna Silva - Syria - A Travel Guide to Disappearance
2016
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
sold out
Taken at the height of the Assad days, the images of the photographer Giovanna Silva overlap in this publication with Syrian tourist guides' images and texts, creating a net of intended and unintended relationships and time interconnections.
Volume! - Avec ma gueule de métèque
2015
texts in English and French
Volume! – The French journal of popular music studies
Mélanie Seteun - Volume! – The French journal of popular music studies
sold out
If France is a land of immigration, what about its variété genre? This issue of Volume! aims at tracing the French paths of artists of foreign origin—those who integrated the legacy of chanson française, and those who left a mark on their community by singing exile. As a protean form of expression, variété is an ideal object to observe the ways in which immigrant and foreign identities have been moulded in post-1945 popular music.
Michael Höpfner - Canto di strada (2 books)
2015
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Nero
sold out
The exhibition Canto di strada placed Fulton's & Höpfner's work side by side identifying a common ground for comparison in a 14-day walking journey through the Supramonte and Gennargentu mountains in Sardinia. The artists undertook separate journeys, experiencing a total immersion in the harsh environment without even meeting each other. Their respective approaches have been documented in two separate booklets.
Francesca Berardi - Detour in Detroit
2015
English edition
Humboldt Books - Globetrotter
sold out
The decay of Detroit and its people's resistance in words and photographs (photographs by Antonio Rovaldi).
Mario Bellini - USA 1972
2015
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Humboldt Books - Time Travel
sold out
Mario Bellini and his “Kar-a-sutra” space-mobile take a wild photographic ride in America during the seventies.
 Taiyo Onorato & Nico Krebs - The Great Unreal
2015
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
sold out
During a period of three years, Taiyo Onorato & Nico Krebs traveled several months through the United States, working “on the road” on The Great Unreal, a photographic work dealing with reality and the fabrication of reality.
Bieke Depoorter - I Am About To Call It a Day
2014
no text
Edition Patrick Frey
sold out
Artist's book.
Giorgio Andreotta Calò - Prima che sia notte
2014
English edition
Archive Books
sold out
Built as a black-and-white film sequence, this first monograph dedicated to the artist includes preparatory sketches, unpublished pictures, critical essays and an interview retracing the artist's work, with a focus on a 2012 site-specific installation Before Night Falls at MAXXI.
 Momus - Solution 214-238 - The Book of Japans
2011
English edition
Sternberg Press - Solution
sold out
The rehabilitation of the idea of the “far.”
Bouchra Khalili - Story Mapping
2010
bilingual edition (English / French)
various
sold out
First monograph dedicated to Franco-marocan video-artist's films (installations or movies), dealing with the notions of movement, relation and distance, on the borderline between visual arts, documentary, and cinema.
Ingo Giezendanner - Baku & Back
2010
no text
Nieves
sold out
A journey to Azerbaijan documented in 176 drawings.
Aux anges
2010
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Artists' books & editions
sold out
A set of anonymous texts and bikers images collected by Olivier Mosset.
Rita Ackermann - Marfa/Crash - Parking Accidents
2009
no text
Nieves
sold out
Issue #7 of THE international with Rita Ackermann, featuring drawings, collages, photographs and new paintings that were inspired by and created during Rita Ackermann's stay in Texas.
Victor Charreton - Itinéraire d\'un peintre voyageur
2003
French edition
various
sold out
Monograph dedicated to the post-impressionnist painter's landscapes.
Jens Haaning - The Refugee Calendar
2002
English edition
JRP|Editions - Artists' books & editions
sold out
Haaning's project consists in a wall calendar similar in format and lay-out to the colorful ones you can buy in bookstores an shops. Instead of using popular images, it presents photographs of refugees, either alone or in small groups.
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