Carmen Winant: Arrangements

This book of multivalent narratives began with a simple premise: collecting sheets of
paper – ripped from books – featuring multiple photographs and inlaid narratives. Across
a decade of working on other projects involving pulling images apart from one another,
excising them from the page, and recontextualizing them as new sets, American artist
Carmen Winant diligently collected disparate sheets, skimming them off the top of her
other ongoing collections. The book that has resulted from that work is wide-ranging in
terms of subject – with sheets depicting rabbinical study, dog training, surgical birth,
methods of tantric sex, patterns of the sunset – yet specific in approach and application.
Her constructed pages trouble how the idea of ‘theme’ operates as the engine of a book,
instead taking the act of arranging, both in discreet pages and as a whole, as its own
meaningful subject.

Published by MACK and Images Vevey
Exposed binding
24 x 30cm, 320 pages
ISBN 978-1-916041-26-4
September 2022