Nude Before a Mirror
Nude Against the Light

1994
a unique pair of corresponding hardback books

A poetic prose text emerged while developing the performance and film work that form Trace. Two corresponding books, with embossed cover titles and texts loosely interweaving in a labyrinthine way, written while staying on Naxos. Shifting between different points of view, implicating the reader from first to second to third person. Matching pale blue paper was chosen to represent the central elements of water as psychological, mythical and physical purification, suggesting melancholy and a desire for transparency, to be free from painful memory and forgetting.
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