Ultrabright, Close to Being Deaf
Jan Adriaans
Les Éditions Peeping Tom
English
Text by Annemartine van-Kesteren
Softcover
Edition of 250
Monograph containing three booklets
28 pages
185 x 140 mm
2011
Ultrabright, Close to Being Deaf is a retrospective booklet compiling works by Jan Adriaans realised between 2005 and 2011, including a text by Annemartine van Kesteren, curator at the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (Rotterdam, NL).
(Source: https://www.peepingtomproject.com/pdf/en/JAN_ADRIAANS-PEEPING_TOM.pdf)
About the Artist
Jan Adriaans is a photographer and visual artist working with photography, installation and video. His body of work thoroughly and methodically investigates materials and space. A subsequent and representative gesture in his practice consists of undertaking an intervention in a given space (public or private) by adding, removing and/or shifting some detail of the décor, before recording the ephemeral installation with a photograph or a video. Confronted with images shot without a prior mise-en-scène by the artist, the modified sets create a subtle décalage and/or awkwardness, an intangible confusion, a certain awareness and consequently, a different perception or interpretation. His artworks also interrogate the social connotation and value of materials through their decadence and elevation to a higher status. Assigning human qualities to textures, components and deserted décors, Jan Adriaans plays with the idea of fetishism and its relationship to physicality.
https://janadriaans.com
(Source: https://www.peepingtomproject.com/m-editions/jan-adriaans/jan-adriaans.php)
About the Publisher
Les éditions Peeping Tom project is a humble collection of artists’ books. Each publication is dedicated specifically to the milieu of one artist (visual artist, photographer, musician, choreographer, poet, movie director, performer, etc.), a carte blanche within a specific framework (format 20 x 15 cm; 64 pages maximum; laser printing; limited edition of 250 copies). This collection stems from a desire to focus on the essential: the creation and the opportunity of a collaboration between an artist and a publisher. Willing to produce in an autonomous and spontaneous manner, while keeping the retail price affordable, this collection breaks away from the administrative, logistical and financial confines of independent art publishing.
https://www.peepingtomproject.com/index.php
(Source: https://www.peepingtomproject.com/pdf/en/JAN_ADRIAANS-PEEPING_TOM.pdf)
