Publication: Letter to Lagat
10 Juin 2015
Magazine C&
2 min de lecture
Letter to Lagat is an artist’s book by Sam Hopkins and Simon Rittmeier that examines and questions ownership, possession and control of African art in Europe. Letter to Lagat meditates on the power of objects in Postcolonial collections of the Global North. Are objects agents of their own movement? What are the implications of the …
Letter to Lagat is an artist's book by Sam Hopkins and Simon Rittmeier that examines and questions ownership, possession and control of African art in Europe.
Letter to Lagat meditates on the power of objects in Postcolonial collections of the Global North. Are objects agents of their own movement? What are the implications of the increasing verisimilitude of digital reproductions?
A book by Sam Hopkins and Simon Rittmeier.
Photography: Hannes Wiedemann
3D artist: Nieves de la Fuente Gutierrez
3D print production: Urs Fries / KHM
Essay: Kitso Lynn Lelliott
Graphic Design: Studio Carmen Strzelecki
Publisher: StrzeleckiBooks, Cologne
104 pages , 21 x 28 cm,
ISBN 978-3-942680-72-1
34.– EURO
Book presentation in context of the exhibitionMASHUP (on view until 27 September 2015) , with music by DJ Dark Hive (aka Skaface the Tilapia)
Friday, 19 June 2015, 6.30pm
at Iwalewahaus
Wölfelstraße 2
95444 Bayreuth
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