Talking Books
With
Julie Legouez. Artist and author / Helena Melikov . Co-Founder . Art Direction SHIFT BOOKS / Sophia Greiff . Curator C/O Berlin / Raluca Blidar . Head of Bookshop C/O Berlin
Location
Café C/O Berlin x Barkin'Kitchen
Admission free
exhibitions not included
With the new event series TALKING BOOKS, C/O Berlin will regularly highlight the world of photo books from spring 2024. In addition to the diversity of their forms and formats, their use as an artistic medium and their reception in research and criticism, the focus will be on local book culture: in the relaxed atmosphere of the C/O Berlin Café, Berlin bookstores will present their favorite books, publishers and photographers will present their latest projects and experts will exchange ideas with the audience about the many facets of the relationship between photography and books.
To kick off, the Berlin publisher SHIFT BOOKS is launching The Cure, the first publication by artist Julie Legouez. The book is divided into ten chapters in which the artist reveals her personal processing as a victim of domestic violence. Legouez presents meticulously collected details in a “file”, which serve as the basis for the graphic design and structure of the book. Parallel to the exhibition Laia Abril . On Rape — And Institutional Failure, The Cure offers a personal insight into the themes of domestic violence and coping with trauma.
Julie Legouez born in 1988 in Viersen, is a multidisciplinary artist who lives and works in Berlin. She studied fine art at the Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weißensee and Emiliy Carr University in Vancouver, Canada, and has presented her work at national and international exhibitions, most recently at the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe in Hamburg. In 2023, Legouez received the NEUSTARTplus scholarship from the Stiftung Kunstfonds and has been working as a freelance curator since 2022.
SHIFT BOOKS is a photo and art book publisher from Berlin that focuses on holistically sustainable production. With a diverse publishing program, SHIFT BOOKS creates space for discussions on gender, political and cultural issues and thus offers an important contribution to social debate. The publisher works with emerging and established artists to create unique publications that combine artistic and social relevance.