Author's book by Rudolf Samoheil.
Each piece is hand-pasted with stickers with descriptions in Czech, English or German. If you order the book through the e-shop and want a version other than the Czech version, please write it in the comments.
The book summarizes two years of Samoheil's travels in countries such as Israel, Cuba, Colombia, Norway and France. A fragmentary picture of the present, presented by photographic records from the trips, is freely linked by text entries, reproductions of the artist's sculptures and documentation of exhibitions.
The author conceives of the book as an independent "speculative exhibition space". It is loosely inspired by the form of a comic narrative and can be read on several levels - we can follow the numerical navigation referring to the non-linear reading of the book or follow the story told by the oil rig, whose often humorous comments accompany us on the hand-pasted comic bubbles. The narrative then varies according to language - Samohejl lets personalities from different linguistic and cultural backgrounds contribute to the book (a "procedural" book of sorts has already been published in English, German and Czech, with Flemish and French in the pipeline). In a manner reminiscent of an investigative work, the book touches on topics such as the landscape of the present, the control of state power, international trade and transport of goods, and more.
Rudolf Samohejl (1987) lives and works in Brussels. From 2007-2014 he studied sculpture at UMPRUM in Prague. He has exhibited solo or as part of group exhibitions in the Czech Republic and abroad. He is the winner of the Jan Naaijkens Prize 2015.
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