A kind of ”huh ?” exhibition
‘Pigeon Reader’, Simon Morris, 2012. Photo: Peter Heaton.
Exhibition 8 November 2012- 23 March 2013
Les Abattoirs, Toulouse Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art + touring, curated by Jérôme Dupeyrat and Maïwenn Walter
In an interview with Willoughby Sharp made in 1973, Ed Ruscha said about the artist’s books he published in the sixties that all his work aimed for producing “a kind of ‘huh?’:
— I realized that for the first time this book had an inexplicable thing I was looking for, and that was
a kind of « huh? » That’s what I’ve always worked around. All it is is a device to disarm somebody
with my particular message. Lots of artists use that.
— Give me some examples of « Huh? »
— I don’t know, somebody digging a hole out in the desert and calling it sculpture…
“Huh?” : this onomatopoeia stands for “What is it?”, “Why?”, “What does it mean? etc.”
‘How the Great Writers Published Themselves’: Independent Newspaper review
The Independent newspaper — one of Britain’s daily broadsheets — ran a two-page essay review on iam’s ‘Do or DIY’ exhibition at Shandy Hall in last Saturday’s edition. The review by Christina Patterson, which tried to situate the project in terms of the upsurge in commercial self-publishers and the traditional valuation of publishing houses, can be read here.
Iam in ‘Pop Up Artists’ Bookshop’, Site Gallery
Pop-up Bookshop, Site Gallery, 2012
Iam accepted the kind invitation of Site Gallery to join in with their ‘Print It’ exhibition project. As a result, you can enjoy and buy a curated selection of iam titles at the gallery until early September as part of the Pop-up Artists Bookshop.
