júlia mazzoni

For the Research Festival, I intend to create an artist book to explore the subject of intimacy in a different format from what I usually do. After attending the bookbinding workshop during Unit 2 and being presented to different formats of artist books, I got very interested in exploring this medium, both as a narrative language and as a conceptual object. As someone who loves to read, I want to explore this relationship in more depth with my research, as a poetic and artistic piece.

 

I'm still not sure of the specifics of the book (i.e. scale, materials, content), but I’d like to explore it as a compound of layers, in which you have to open it to access, as if someone were accessing an intimate space. I’d like to think of the pages as layers, perhaps utilizing papers or fabrics with transparency, and also adding my stitching on it, as a way to make it more personal, and to showcase my research on the expanded line.

 

I’m thinking about the idea of going through the pages as someone delving into layers of intimacy, layers of the body, or layers of memory. I’d like to explore written language, almost as a diary of personal thoughts. Below, I brought together random image references that I found online, as a visual moodboard for this work.