Auras and Levitations
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by Susan Hiller
Auras and Levitations is co-published by Book Works and the ICA, as part of the our 60th anniversary celebrations.
Susan Hiller’s most recent artist’s book pays homage to two images of aspiration, fantasy and sublimation. Yves Klein’s 'Leap Into The Void', and Marcel Duchamp’s 'Portrait of Dr. R. Dumouchel'. Both embrace the phastasmagorical legacy of modernist art; in the former, the shaman's defiance of gravity, in the latter, the clairvoyant's perception of human auras.
In her miniature book, Hiller has assembled images sourced from the internet, all paying indirect homage to these two artists' gestures. She presents a sequence of levitations, back-to-back with a series of images of auras, so constructing an occult legacy thriving in popular culture, in which the artist’s gesture is reincarnated in the democratic medium of the internet.
ISBN 9781906012076
Printed offset in an edition of 1,000 copies, colour and b/w, 160 pages with a soft cover. Edited and designed by Jen Wu.
110 x 77 mm.
A Special Edition of Auras and Levitations is also available.
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