Animal Books for Jaap, Zeno, Julian & Luca performance Selbstvertrauen und Abschied gesäumt

Selbstvertrauen und Abschied gesäumt

Thomas Elsaesser

wo der Maulwurf Grabowski wohnt

and a new genre – the collective autobiography – in order to capture the passing of time

While the main exhibition is primarily organized more in five parts that contemplate a new spatial contract at five scales-as diverse beings

Animal Books for Jaap, Zeno, Julian & Luca performance Selbstvertrauen und Abschied gesäumtComposed of pictures of animals clipped from magazines and newspapers, stamps and photos from advertising pamphlets, Lous Martens new photobook is a symbol of family devotion before anything else. Seventeen years ago our grandson Jaap was born. That was the start of an animal book for Jaap. I used more a dummy for the OASE journal of architecture and loosely pasted in pictures of animals that I had clipped from newspapers and magazines about art,