Blaue Stunde Raum is an edition which is apprehended as a paper sculpture: a sculpture which invites the public to handle it and unfold, in space, the urban landscapes the object contains. This edition of eight monotypes stems from an installation that Katinka Bock put together for her exhibition at Rosascape which ran from December 2011 to February 2012, in which she covered the eight windows of one of the exhibition rooms with blue paint. The artist then applied various fragments of vegetation, pieces of cardboard, debris and refuse found in the street to the layer of paint: fragments as the traces and the memory of urban space, as the prints of a landscape and a temporality.
Le La Mort is a work by Fabien Giraud made up of fifteen books produced and edited by Rosascape and co-produced with Forde. Le La Mort is a book of images. Fifty-nine photographs reproduce to scale 1:1 the sculptures from the exhibition Du Mort qui Saisit le Vif (La Maison du Dehors). Each book is cut down the middle by the script of a conversation between Fabien Giraud and Vincent Normand, printed on Linotype. This dialogue, entitled Metaxu providing both a commentary and a point of origin for the works of the exhibition, is the point of appearance of the writing in the field of vision defined by the book. (More information about the exhibition here).
The artist's book MAD MARGINAL developed in parallel with the eponymous project Dora García has been working on since 2009. In the form of an archival box file, this artist's book compiles 27 documents (texts, photos, a DVD, a CD, emails, interviews and conversations, leaflets, etc.) which have fueled Dora García's research these past two years. These documents are identical facsimile reproductions of the originals. Dealing with marginality as an artistic and political position, Dora García attends to the different meanings involved in such a position, considering both the contradictory character and the beauty of the artist as marginal figure.
The Aesthetics of Differends (2008 -) is an artist's book documenting Benoît Maire's ongoing research on the 'differend' - a concept borrowed from philosopher Jean-François Lyotard. Produced in a limited edition of twenty-five French-language and twenty-five English-language signed and numbered copies printed on Cyclus paper, each of which comes with a specially created fabric-covered box, Benoît Maire's book is a work in progress comprising eight sixteen-page sections to date (January 2011). It constitutes an art object in its own right, while doubling up as both a philosophical and an artistic investigation into the key questions of postmodernity and the significance of the postconceptual artwork.
Third section of the Wonder Beirut project, 2009.
The "Latent Images / Diary of a photographer" book brings together 38 contact print photographs selected from the hundreds of films used and never developed, taken by photographer Abdallah Farah between 1997 and 2006. This book of 1312 pages, published in a limited edition – two editions of 75 numbered and signed copies, one in French and the other in English – offers an immersion to the very heart of these latent images. The description of the images replaces the photographs themselves; short fragments of text describe the invisible images while creating a new imagined space.
