Typhoon coming on
Typhoon coming on
Sondra Perry
American artist Sondra Perry explores black identity and black femininity throughout history, often taking her own life and experience as a point of departure. Her use of digital tools, such as blue screens, 3D avatars, computer desktop windows, open source software and footage found online, reflects critically on representation itself. For her first European solo exhibition she created an immersive video and sound installation transforming the walls of the Serpentine North Gallery into a purple corridor of computer generated waves based on digitally altered versions of J.M.W. Turner’s 1840 painting, The Slave Ship.
The design of the book reacts to the ideas of Perry’s work: a fragment of Turner’s manipulated sea is hidden in the inside of the cover fold-out that is wrapped around the entire book block. The custom-made Chroma-key blue is not only employed as a background and in the typography but also in the color separation of the imagery adding an extra graphic quality. The image sections vary in size, with installation views laid out on the large format and stills in shorter sections, thereby reflecting the way in which the artist layers content.
Year: 2018
Client: Serpentine Galleries, London
Co-publisher: Koenig Books
Exhibition catalogue, 19.6 × 26 cm, 220 pages
Photography: Raquel Diniz
Typhoon coming on
Typhoon coming on
Sondra Perry
American artist Sondra Perry explores black identity and black femininity throughout history, often taking her own life and experience as a point of departure. Her use of digital tools, such as blue screens, 3D avatars, computer desktop windows, open source software and footage found online, reflects critically on representation itself. For her first European solo exhibition she created an immersive video and sound installation transforming the walls of the Serpentine North Gallery into a purple corridor of computer generated waves based on digitally altered versions of J.M.W. Turner’s 1840 painting, The Slave Ship.
The design of the book reacts to the ideas of Perry’s work: a fragment of Turner’s manipulated sea is hidden in the inside of the cover fold-out that is wrapped around the entire book block. The custom-made Chroma-key blue is not only employed as a background and in the typography but also in the color separation of the imagery adding an extra graphic quality. The image sections vary in size, with installation views laid out on the large format and stills in shorter sections, thereby reflecting the way in which the artist layers content.
Year: 2018
Client: Serpentine Galleries, London
Co-publisher: Koenig Books
Exhibition catalogue, 19.6 × 26 cm, 220 pages
Photography: Raquel Diniz