Noon
Noon
Laura Sperl
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NOON is a visual and haptic experience of the passage of time and an invitation to be part of continuous change. The book consists of seven series of a mixture of photograms and chemigrams which resulted from experimentation with sea water and sand on photographic paper, exposed to sunlight. The analogue images were not fixated and and were left to change naturally over a period of two weeks.
The evolution of the images over time is captured through digital photography and results in a cinematic experience across 88 pages in the book. Viewers are not only invited to contemplate on the images, but to actually observe that they themselves are actively involved in the processes of change by leaving traces of their hands on the thermo sensitive cover. In her work, Laura Sperl keeps exploring processes of change, uncontrollable influences and human action in this field of uncertainty and the unknown.
Author: Laura Sperl
Editing and Sequencing: Laura Sperl and Tiago Casanova
Graphic Design: Laura Sperl
Printing: Guide Artes Gráficas
Binding: Estúdio Bulhufas
Cover Silkscreen: Sud Sud
Acknowledgement: XYZ Books, Sérgio Fazenda Rodrigues and Günther Oberhollenzer
2023
Self-published in collaboration with XYZ Books
25 x 22,5 cm
Digital Offset Printing
Hand-bound with japanese stitching
Silkscreen Cover with Thermochromic Pigment
First edition
100 copies
This book was developed within the framework of the XYZ Books Residency Program in October 2022
Institutional Partners:
Austrian Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, Civil Service and Sport
Otto Mauer Fonds
Federal State of Upper Austria
Bildrecht
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