Description
About the book
This book has a total of 168 pages full of portraits, behind the scenes content and written texts, all wrapped with a special American dust jacket. It is a documentation of our project ‘Sphinx Inside Out’, which took place during the Summer of 2019, in Maastricht.
“This book can and should be used in many different ways. It is for example akin to a family album. It contains within it more than one hundred and eighty portraits of individual people.
Does it keep them safe? Does it hold them close? Sadly, no.. The book can not hold off time and decay and death. But it does keep the faith, it is a testament, a witness, it states unequivocally the fact that these individuals were present to be photographed, that they were alive, that they existed […]” The book constitutes a sociological archive of sorts. In it three distinct groups of people are brought together to be looked at, to be contemplated, to be compared. The book is a documentation of an artwork. The book is an artwork. […]”
Title: Sphinx Inside Out
Format: 170×240 mm

