Green with Envy

Clouds and Starkwhite are pleased to announce the release of a new book:

----------------------------------------------- Layla Rudneva-Mackay: Green with Envy ----------------------------------------------- Thursday, 31 May, 6pm ----------------------------------------------- To be launched at the opening of Pointing at Trees, Starkwhite, 510 Karangahape Road, Auckland -----------------------------------------------

This volume brings together a body of photographic work produced by Layla Rudneva-Mackay from 2002-2009. This work emerged from the ruins of a sculptural practice, and exists in parallel with graphic work, painting and writing. Her practice as a whole is characterised by poetic slips, language holes and visual emersion. This photographic work characteristically involves forms and figures and situations set up against interior and exterior backdrops. Their gestures and activities are not specified, and they are sometimes obscured or altered by fabric and paint. There are also pictures of architecture taken at night, which further contribute to the way in which her work makes space for unknowing, and in doing so, for risk. ----------------------------------------------- Texts by Layla Rudneva-Mackay, Jon Bywater, Sean O’Reilly, Selene Forester and Gwynneth Porter ----------------------------------------------- Published by Clouds and Starkwhite ----------------------------------------------- ISBN: 978-0-9876593-2-3 ----------------------------------------------- Soft-cover with dust jacket 124 pages 48 colour images, 4 black-and-white images English ----------------------------------------------- Edition: 1000 Dimensions: 305 x 240 x 12mm Individually shrinkwrapped ----------------------------------------------- NZD$59.95

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