Hardcover without dust jacket, as issued
ISBN:
9789491843761
Batia Suter’s Parallel Encyclopedia #2 functions as an expansive, visual investigation into the mutability of imagery and the latent narratives generated through recontextualization. Expanding upon her landmark 2007 publication, this monumental volume operates as a dense atlas of found photographs, archival reproductions, textbook clippings, and scientific plates. Suter bypasses linear text entirely, orchestrating a sprawling sequence where visual syntax takes precedence. By juxtaposing disparate elements ranging from geological formations and biological specimens to historical artifacts and architectural fragments, she examines how image grouping and page layout can radically alter perception, transforming static documentation into a dynamic web of cross-cultural and cross-temporal associations.
Suter treats the book format itself as an exhibition space, masterfully exploiting the friction between recto and verso pages so that images actively comment on, disrupt, or amplify one another. The visual analysis relies heavily on the "iconification" of printed matter, how historical or banal images stripped of their original captions acquire new associative charges and symbolic resonance when placed in unexpected visual dialogues.
Parallel Encyclopedia #2 stands out as a definitive statement on image circulation and reproducibility, a recurring theme in the Bushwick Sur Seine collection.
Batia Suter’s Parallel Encyclopedia #2 functions as an expansive, visual investigation into the mutability of imagery and the latent narratives generated through recontextualization. Expanding upon her landmark 2007 publication, this monumental volume operates as a dense atlas of found photographs, archival reproductions, textbook clippings, and scientific plates. Suter bypasses linear text entirely, orchestrating a sprawling sequence where visual syntax takes precedence. By juxtaposing disparate elements ranging from geological formations and biological specimens to historical artifacts and architectural fragments, she examines how image grouping and page layout can radically alter perception, transforming static documentation into a dynamic web of cross-cultural and cross-temporal associations.
Suter treats the book format itself as an exhibition space, masterfully exploiting the friction between recto and verso pages so that images actively comment on, disrupt, or amplify one another. The visual analysis relies heavily on the "iconification" of printed matter, how historical or banal images stripped of their original captions acquire new associative charges and symbolic resonance when placed in unexpected visual dialogues.
Parallel Encyclopedia #2 stands out as a definitive statement on image circulation and reproducibility, a recurring theme in the Bushwick Sur Seine collection.
Batia Suter’s Parallel Encyclopedia #2 functions as an expansive, visual investigation into the mutability of imagery and the latent narratives generated through recontextualization. Expanding upon her landmark 2007 publication, this monumental volume operates as a dense atlas of found photographs, archival reproductions, textbook clippings, and scientific plates. Suter bypasses linear text entirely, orchestrating a sprawling sequence where visual syntax takes precedence. By juxtaposing disparate elements ranging from geological formations and biological specimens to historical artifacts and architectural fragments, she examines how image grouping and page layout can radically alter perception, transforming static documentation into a dynamic web of cross-cultural and cross-temporal associations.
Suter treats the book format itself as an exhibition space, masterfully exploiting the friction between recto and verso pages so that images actively comment on, disrupt, or amplify one another. The visual analysis relies heavily on the "iconification" of printed matter, how historical or banal images stripped of their original captions acquire new associative charges and symbolic resonance when placed in unexpected visual dialogues.
Parallel Encyclopedia #2 stands out as a definitive statement on image circulation and reproducibility, a recurring theme in the Bushwick Sur Seine collection.