本書『AUTOFICTIONS IN STONE』は、同名の展覧会に合わせて刊行された作品集です。コンラッドの膨大なアーカイブから選ばれた建設、解体、採石といった「石」をめぐるイメージ群が、16ページのシート6枚にまとめられています。それぞれのイメージの連なりは、鉱夫や建築家の守護聖人である聖バルバラと、中世の年代記の図像によって挟み込まれるように構成されており、現代の風景に歴史的、神話的な文脈を与えています。本書の大きな特徴は、これらのシートがランダムな順序で製本されている点にあります。一冊ごとに異なるイメージの関係性が立ち現れる、虚構の物語を綴った作品集です。
Concurrent with the exhibition Autofictions in Stone, a publication features six sixteen-page sheets designed by Aglaia Konrad: sequences of images showing construction sites, architectural structures, demolitions, and quarries from Konrad’s extensive image archive – each “framed” by an image of Saint Barbara, the patron saint of miners and builders, and an illustration from Giovanni Villani’s late medieval Nuova Cronica. Bound into the book in random order, they generate ever-changing arrangements. Orla Barry, who based in Ireland, recurrently swaps the wellies of a sheep farmer for the attire of a (performance) artist, has contributed an autofictional text.
Further on, each copy of the publication contains one of several leporellos designed by Konrad. These were produced by hand, following Konrad’s characteristically analogue method of working with a photocopier. According to her instructions, images were scaled, duplicated, and assembled on the xerox before being reproduced in the full print run.
- Pages: 112 Size: 210 x 298 mm softcover Color, black and white
