SixtyEight Art Institute is delighted to release IMAGE: temporary constellation a new book by artist Julie Sass. This English language edition is a conceptual exploration of the artist's work through the image and its role in the aftermath of artistic production. Various writers give their take in short essays and other written contributions.
On 27 October, there will be a launch event at SixtyEight Art Institute. Here Julie Sass will present the book in conversation with Karen Elsebeth Jensen, complimentary drinks will be served.
Save the Date: Thursday, 27 October. From 18-20. Conversation starts at 18:30. Place: Gothersgade 167, st.th.
ABOUT THE BOOK
Image: temporary constellation is the result of a social and artistic inquiry by Julie Sass. The artist asked experts and colleagues from artistic, curatorial and writing backgrounds to use her artworks as the base to read the image's evolution, context, and place to studio practice, visual politics, and representation.
The book unfolds through the thoughts of each professional and how the artist uses her creative method as a magnifying lens to investigate reality via abstraction. Through this process, the reader is given various insights into the great potential of community-driven engagements in art -- in this case specifically -- as Julie Sass highlights, by providing focus and substance to how an image manifests itself in the world.
"Do pictures become images after dialogue?" is the question around which "Image: temporary constellation" revolves. According to the artist, the word imagen is tied to an appearance and connected to grasping "what will later materialize as an object or piece." At the same time, the subtitle, temporary constellation, refers to the assembly of voices, texts and works found in the book. With clear intention, this edition is a register of admired artists, critics and writers who generously reflect on their surroundings by using her artworks as the starting point.
In summary, Julie Sass explains that "the idea for this publication started in the summer of 2019. It concretized as the pandemic, forest fires, and war outbreaks reminded us how every purposeful creative gesture and meaningful personal engagement are a sign of a primordial/deep-rooted need to feel connected."
The book contains an interview with artist Nancy Friedemann-Sánchez and essays from Mikkel Bogh, Dina Vester Feilberg, Jeannene Przyblyski, Ivelisse Jiménez, Barry Schwabsky, Pari Stave, Kristian Handberg, Siri Ranva Hjelm Jakobsen, Courtney J. Martin, Kinna Poulsen, Line Clausen Pedersen, Eva Tind and with an editorial endnote by Hugo Hopping.
IMAGE: temporary constellation By Julie Sass Really Simple Syndication Press, 2022 120 Pages Various illustrations English Edition Designed by Jeanne Betak ISBN 978-87-970091-7-8 225 DKK / 30 EUR
BIOS
Karen Elsebeth Jensen is a cultural mediator at Hillerød Bibliotek (Hillerød Library), where she is curator of Vandrehallen, the exhibition venue connected to the Library, which includes events and new cultural offerings in relation to literature and its encounters with other forms of culture. Karen is interested in contemporary literature and in hybrid projects, where literature manifests itself outside the book and at the meeting point between music, the visual arts, and digital media.
Julie Sass studied visual art at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen and at New York University (MFA), where she specialised in painting. Later she received her MA in Theory and Mediation from The Royal Danish Art Academy of Fine Arts. Focusing on Abstraction in its diverse forms and how visual art can be embedded in various contexts, Sass has curated several exhibitions and published books connected to these exhibits, including her artist books. Her work can be found in public and private collections, such as The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and it has been supported by Ny Carlsbergfondet. In 2020 she was nominated for the Queen Sonja Print Award.
