“…The present publication is made up of two voices: text and image. These voices move in parallel, so to speak. The first one comprises an essay that reviews the political, social, and aesthetic coordinates necessary to contextualize the artworks gathered in Off-Register. A few of these works have inspired digressions into greater detail, denoted on the page by a change in font. The second voice is created by images, a succession of reproductions that, ordered according to topic and content, build a sequential experience similar to that of the works exhibited in situ. Although these voices advance at independent rhythms within this book, harmony can be found, whenever it is deemed necessary, thanks to the consecutively-numbered image captions that run the full length of this book—from beginning to end—and an Index organized alphabetically according to artist surname.…”
The Ensayos series was launched in late 2021, coinciding with the start of a wide-ranging research project aimed at redefining—from a feminist and, to the extent possible, decolonial perspective—the canon that historiography has established for the artist’s book genre. The aim of this series is to present partial research findings in a variety of printed formats. While disseminating information and content, the publications in the series experiment with alternative formats to the channels through which academic research is usually disseminated.
New York: Center for Book Arts, December 2023
Concept, text: Mela Dávila Freire
Graphic design: Todojunto, Barcelona
17 x 26 cm, 190 pp
Offset, 2 + 2 (inside), 1+1 (cover), perfect bound, soft cover
Printed at Nomos, Bogotá
1st edition: 1.000 ex
Texts in Spanish and English
ISBN: 978-1-951163-15-0
With the support of PICE Program – Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Institut Ramon Llull, Barcelona.
Distributed by Center for Book Arts (US) and Idea Books (Europe)
