Plant Light Curtain: Rey Akdogon

Minerva Projects presents their first edition: Plant Light Curtain: Rey Akdogon (2023).

42 x 29.7 cm (16.5 x 11.7 in)
100 pages; 45 tipped in, color images printed recto verso
Wire-O Binding
Clothbound slipcase w/ foil stamp
Booklet insert with conversation between Sarah Demeuse and Rey Akdogan

Limited edition of 30 copies + 2 artist’s proofs and 3 hors commerce
Signed and numbered by the artist

$600 
 
Consultant to the artist and the publisher: Three Star Books, Paris; This book has been made possible by significant support from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, Chicago; Hannah Hoffman, Los Angeles; and Sequence Press, New York.

Drawing on an archive of tear sheets from magazines covering interior design, architecture, and lifestyle, Rey Akdogan uses subtraction to transform the way in which these images can be recognized and read. Experimenting with the plasticity of the paper and the porousness of pigments, these subtractions scramble the societal and economic hierarchies embedded in advertising media. The artist focuses on the recurrence of light, plants, and curtains as atmospheric elements; and in an accompanying conversation with writer and curator Sarah Demeuse, reflects on classification systems, the subtle ways value is constructed through principles of organization, and how these ordering approaches have shifted in the distracted pandemic years.

The project tests the format of the swatch book—an important tool for various disciplines: architecture, interior design, theatre, cinema, and graphic design. The visualization of languages of classification underscores the ways environmental atmospheres are projected on the basis of small, standardized fragments and the manner in which these samples reflect hierarchies of value.