Out of Order: Bad Display III
Penelope Umbrico
RVB Books
English
Softcover with plastic slipcase
132 pages
180 x 280mm
2018
ISBN 9791090306851
Out Of Order: Bad Display III consists of images of screens cropped from used and broken LCD TVs, computer monitors, and laptops found for sale on e-shops. Now out of order, these screens are muted, voiceless, marked by flaw, by hand, or by their own inner liquid chemical flow.
Here, in their final presentation, ephemeral images of broken material objects materialize once again as ink on paper – digital signal transcribed to ink. Umbrico further emphasizes the materiality of these worn, obsolete and sold-for-parts objects by over-inking the press during printing. This intervention undermines the precision of the press and the slick-ness of the screen, calling attention to the material messiness of both.
While the intervention expresses the particularity of these objects and renders each copy of the book unique, its unbound form further subverts the idea of order. The clean readable screen, the precision of the printing press, and the typically accepted structure of a book, are all in question here: to view the book as a whole, the images are fragmented; to view a whole image, you must take the book apart. Out of Order: Bad Display destabilizes the organizational logics of the book and the screen, requiring incompatible maneuvers to view one or the other.
(source: https://www.thelibraryproject.ie/products/out-of-order-bad-display-iii-penelope-umbrico)
About the Artist
Penelope Umbrico’s installations, video, and digital media works utilize photo-sharing and consumer-to-consumer websites as an expansive archive to explore the production and consumption of images. Her work navigates between producer and consumer, local and global, the individual and the collective, with attention to the technologies that are produced by (and produce) these forces. Umbrico’s work has been exhibited at MoMA PS1, NY; Museum of Modern Art, NY; MassMoCA, MA; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA; Milwaukee Art Museum, WI; Art Museum Gosta, Finland; Foto Colectania, Barcelona, Spain; The Photographers’ Gallery, London; Daegu Photography Biennale, Korea; Pingyao International Photography Festival, China; Kunstverein Ludwigshafen, Germany; Rencontres d’Arles, France; Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane Australia; among many others, and is represented in museum collections around the world. She has received numerous awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship; Sharpe-Walentas Studio Grant; Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship; New York Foundation of the Arts Fellowship; Anonymous Was a Woman Award. Her monographs have been published by Aperture NYC and RVB Books Paris.
http://www.penelopeumbrico.net/
(source: http://www.penelopeumbrico.net/index.php/info/bio–cv/)
About the Publisher
RVB Books is both an independent publisher dedicated to designing and printing unique fine arts books and a gallery featuring exhibitions on new editorial practices.
https://rvb-books.com/
(source: https://rvb-books.com/pages/infos)
