At Leporello, for the first time in Rome, Giuliana Prucca, founder and artistic director of AVARIE, will present her book Devenir minéral, published by L’éditeur du dimanche in Paris.

This essay establishes critical and poetic connections among texts and works by various artists, writers, and thinkers—from Antonin Artaud to Jean Dubuffet, Jan Fabre, Anselm Kiefer, Yves Klein, Gutaï, Joë Bousquet, Francis Ponge, Gaston Bachelard, Gilles Deleuze, and Aby Warburg—through the prism of the mineral element, encompassing stone, sand, dust, or earth. Challenging conventional art history, the essay embraces a critically inventive approach that celebrates anti-critique, disrupts traditional reading habits, and inhabits writing space differently, providing a physically engaging experience.

Giuliana Prucca will then shift her presentation’s focus on her latest project as a curator and publisher, Snaturamenti | a workbook by Flatform on displacement, co-published with Light Cone, a major distributor of experimental films in France and abroad.

Flatform is a Milan-Berlin based collective artist that creates time-based works, film events, and installations, most of which revolve around landscape and biopolitics. Distributed by Light Cone and Video DataBank, Flatform’s films have competed in major festivals including Cannes, Rotterdam, Venice, Toronto, and have been shown worldwide in art venues such as Centre Pompidou, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Hirshhorn Museum, MAXXI Museum, Eye Filmmuseum, Garage Center for the Arts, Prada Foundation.

Snaturamenti | a workbook by Flatform on displacement represents the most mature example of the concept that underpins Giuliana Prucca’s publishing practice: shifting from one medium to another in order to question the status of the image, subverting the representational system, and reimagining the conventional form of the book, transforming it into a place for experimentation.
Transitional states—whether spatial or temporal, geographical or historical, phenomenological or climatic—and the notion of landscape as a complex network of connections between species form the basis of Flatform’s artistic and philosophical research practice, serving as the mechanism for the deconstruction and reconstruction of its films on the page.

The presentation will feature the screening of Flatform’s short film A Place to Come (2011) and showcase various aspects of the book Snaturamenti.

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giuliana prucca | DEVENIR MINÉRAL | SNATURAMENTI
book presentation | film screening

leporello – photobooks et al.
via del pigneto, 162/e
00176 rome | italy

monday, 25 november 2024, 7 pm

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LEPORELLO – photobooks et al. is a bookshop devoted to photobooks as starting and connecting point with graphic design, architecture, illustrated books, essays, and literature. It is an exhibition venue and a project space focused on books and images, with the aim of promoting and disseminating a multidisciplinary and wide approach to visual culture. It is a word with a funny sound, reminding an accordion book, Mozart, or simply, in Italian, a small hare.

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