/Aglaia Konrad

Aglaia Konrad. Autoficitions in Stone

Format: 21 x 29,7 cm

Details: Softcover, dust jacket, 112 pages, hand-copied fanfold

Series design concept: Sabo Day

Graphic design: Sabo Day

Text: Orla Barry

Language: German, English

117 images

Secession 2024

Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König, Köln

ISBN 978-3-7533-0794-7

EUR 21.-

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.