Kris Lemsalu
Subtitle: Albummm
By: concept & book design: Kris Lemsalu ; photographs: Kris Lemsalu & various friends
Publisher: Revolver Publishing; Secession
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Berlin; Vienna
Language: eng
Number of pages: 96
ISBN-13: 9783957634184
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Artists' books
Other titles: Albummm
Description: The Estonian artist Kris Lemsalu creates complex sculptures, installations, and performances that fuse the animal kingdom with humankind, nature with the artificial, beauty with repulsion, lightness with gravity, life with death. She revives traditional techniques and methods to combine animal bodies and porcelain objects with found (natural) materials such as furs, leather, seashells, wool, or paper in theatrical installations that whisk us off into a world of the fantastic imagination. Spanning a wide range of media and modes of production, Lemsalu's multifaceted oeuvre incorporates elements from performance art, found objects, manufactured pieces, and music. Her multimedia creations attest to her passion for detail, hinting at a critique of society by revealing tensions between the politics of gender, art-making, nature, and time-honored craftsmanship. Lemsalu is fascinated by the possibility of making objects that are not aestheticized - their physical presence is narrative rather than representational. In her self-portraits, she often reinvents herself as a creature blending masculine with feminine features, surrounding herself with a new reality whose complexion and character are perpetually shifting.
Notes: Title from cover.

A photo album, hard cover, covered in linen of varying colours, glued with applications unique to each copy, handwritten title on cover, and stamped on spine, with 100 analogue photographs inserted in vinyl sleeves.

Limited edition of 400 copies.

On the occasion of the exhibition "Kris Lemsalu", held at the Secession, Vienna, November 16, 2018 - January 20, 2019.