(Signed) On the Subject of Body and Space by Marte Aas

An artist book by Marta Ås, a Norwegian artist based in Oslo.

The nude model is a classic motif in art history, and throughout the ages art has sought to problematize the relationship between individuals and the spaces they inhabit. The voyeuristic gaze inherent in this predicament became more pronounced when photography entered the art scene. The visual regime of photography makes visible both the viewer and the viewed. Humans, especially the nude, are objectified. Is it possible to convey the subjective experience of the body in space through an image? In his video work On the Subject of Body and Space, released in 2014, Orth attempted to employ a similar strategy, a kind of methodological phenomenology, to study the representation of the body and space. Released the following year, this work continues the concept but challenges the photographic conventions of frame, space, scale, and physicality. The bellows structure turns these conventions on their head, and the image freely crosses the boundaries of the page. This book is a two-dimensional printed matter, but at the same time it is a paper sculpture that occupies space, making it a critical work against the conventional way of viewing collections of artworks, which is to view images two-dimensionally in a private space.

Limited to 200 copies. Signed by the artist.

*As these are handmade books, there may be individual differences.

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Title: On the Subject of Body and Space
Artist: Marte Aas
Multipress, 2015
Handmade cover
187 x 240 mm, 12 pages
Limited edition of 200 copies, signed
ISBN 978-82-92224-22-9
¥4,400-