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Lenard Smith
Melancholy Objects
Lenard Smith (132)
SPECIAL EDITION
Perimeter Editions and Lenard Smith have produced a special edition of 25 copies of 'Melancholy Objects'.
It’s no mistake that Lenard Smith’s new book borrows its title from Susan Sontag’s 1977 essay of the same name. Melancholy Objects – the Los Angeles-based Artist grounds the photographic endeavour in the surreal, the introspective, and the referential.
Working in the tradition of the ragpicker, Smith sifts through personal and found objects to create formal compositions that gently intersect sculpture with the still life - broaching new purposes and hierarchies, and pulsing with a sense of humour, play, and solemnity.
Unlikely materials and choreographies elicit a furrow or a smirk. While history and function inspire each photograph, it is the imagination that subverts and ungrounds them. In the spirit of Dadaism, we’re left happily adrift in their presence.
110 pages
21 x 12.5 cm
Softcover
Perimeter Editions
