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Mariken Wessels
TAKING OFF. HENRY MY NEIGHBOR
€59,00
24 × 33 cm, 330 p, ills colour & bw, paperback
ISBN 9789490800345
design: Jurgen Maelfeyt & Mariken Wessels
language: English
ISBN 9789490800345
design: Jurgen Maelfeyt & Mariken Wessels
language: English
first edition of 1000
May 2015
second edition of 1000
February 2017
May 2015
second edition of 1000
February 2017
Taking Off is a real picture story of a failed marriage, sexual frustration and voyeurism. An extraordinary amount of photographs and cut-up collages comprise an archival vertigo of amateur nude art. Through people she met on a journey through the United States, artist Mariken Wessels gained access to the studio and the entire archive of Henry, as well as full consent over its use. She started redacting the work and arranging it into an artist’s book, in which the audience will be invited to a journey into Henry’s life and his vision of his former wife and muse Martha.
Mariken Wessels (° 1963, the Netherlands) creates artist’s books, photo series, film works, sculptures, and installations. Her multilayered projects lean on appropriated imagery and self-produced images to reimagine existing narratives as well as construct new ones.