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Unimposing Form, essay book, True Belief/Run Artist Run.
135x200 / 84 pages / perfect binding / ISBN 978-0-9756242-1-0
Design/cover by Adam Cruickshank
Edited by Abbra Kotlarczyk
Unimposing Form is an essay book that rethinks the relationship between form and matter in forming practices, including and exceeding sculpture. These essays explore the potential of the work of philosopher and psychoanalyst Luce Irigaray for rethinking forces of sculptural formation through an exploration of the practices of Barbara Hepworth and Lygia Clark. When put into generative dialogue with theory from Jacques Derrida and Suely Rolnik, Irigaray’s conceptualisations of the interval, difference, relation, and affection enable a rethinking of tensions and conventions at play between notions of form and matter.
Purchase online from True Belief or from selected stockists: Run Artist Run, Alta Forma or in store from Conduction.
Image credit: Ming Liew
Launched at NGV Art Book Fair, 16-18 May 2025.
Launch event/talk presented by Adam Cruickshank:
Friday 16 May, 4-4:30pm
NGV Federation Court
https://artbookfair.melbourne/event/unimposing-form/
The launch of Unimposing Form will be a discussion between author Benjamin Woods, artist and Director of Alta Forma, Meredith Turnbull, and artist and academic Terri Bird. Artist and designer Adam Cruickshank, representing publisher True Belief, will introduce the speakers.
Current exhibition:
Wet Lines
Alta Forma
8-31 May
Opening event Saturday 10 May, 3-5pm.
Performance event Saturday 24 May, 2-4pm.