Published by JRP|Editions. Edited by Julien Fronsacq, Bea Schlingelhoff. Text by Bea Schlingelhoff.
This artist’s book by Bea Schlingelhoff (born 1971) gathers together 366 capping phrases used for koan practice, a fundamental part of Zen Buddhism. Schlingelhoff invites us to think about the contents of the phrases, but also to reflect on such a practice in our contemporary times.
Published by Mousse Publishing. Edited with text by Gloria Hasnay. Text by Bea Schlingelhoff, Helene Moll, Catherine Chevalier, Christina Irrgang, Sadie Plant.
Through drawing, sculpture and typography, German artist Bea Schlingelhoff (born 1971) interrogates the ideology and history of the respective sites of her exhibitions. This monograph surveys 15 years of her work. Each book is bound in different endpapers from the private collection of the artist’s father.
Bea Schlingelhoff: “If you slap the water, you hurt the heads of the fish”