Böcker utgivna av Shelter Press

IT'S ALIVE! à travers l'oeuvre de Gisèle Vienne, the new book from French photographer Estelle Hanania, gathers over ten years of collaboration and archives revolving around the artistic universe of Gisèle Vienne. A subjective monography on the choreographer's work, the present book makes for one of Estelle Hanania's densest cluster of images to date, arraying a collection of photographs that spans from 2008 to 2019. For Estelle Hanania, whose work has previously been featured twice by Shelter Press, the human body has proven to be a limitless source of inspiration. Her ability at capturing the essence of Gisèle Vienne's vision, through her acute visual understanding of bodies and objects, as well as her knack for building natural bridges between Gisèle's performances and the whole of her photographic endeavour, make this new publication a much essential milestone in Estelle's career. Shaking up the foundations of the classic live-performance book as we know it, It's Alive! offers a singular take on the work of Gisèle Vienne, inviting the reader to look from beyond the stage's borders, taking a step back and shifting perspectives, allowing to envision the whole of Vienne's body of work under a fresh new light; the heart of the book deploying in truly free and sensible fashion, while eschewing the chronological, and/or thematic approach usually associated with such efforts. An ambitious photographic project in full resonnance with Shelter Press' aspirations, it is with particular emotion that we welcome this title, reference SP100, to the fold - a number bound to establish as a landmark issuing in our catalogue.

Mottled sausages, icy landscapes with worms that seem to have died trying to make it over hurdles, portals to impossible lands: welcome to the accidental world of Anne Brugni. METAMORPHOSIS is a period piece of a work in progress, a cross section of ideas that eliminates a good quantity of works already made, and ignores the future. It is not a "best of".  The book itself is made in the same manner of the works displayed within: using instinct, not too much revision (but revision nonetheless) and just enough material to give a glimpse of a narrative without becoming redundant or conclusive. The primary question that the work makes us pose is: WHAT? What does this represent? What is this material? What is going on? Therein lies the attraction, for the work is not for curious people, it makes people curious. It demands us to ask questions, to question it and ourselves at the same time. Sure the material is profane: simply paper & clay (if boiled down to the bare essentials). But the treatment, the textures and compositions give us clues to a mania, a research, an exploration that is flabbergasting.

A few month after his Shelter Press debut with the publication ?Photographies du soir' (SP095), ?Les Rendez vous de l'écluse' presents a new collection of polaroids by Paris-based artist Julien Carreyn. Following a serie of locks in the countryside, the book offers a derive over the course of 32 new images.