Piece of Paper Press Publication Launch
Katharine Meynell, SOIL (POPP.044)
20 September 2024, 6-8pm
Etc. Space at Matt’s Gallery
Join us at Matt’s Gallery, London, for the launch of SOIL by Katharine Meynell, a publication released in a numbered limited edition of 150 copies by Piece of Paper Press. Up to half of the print run will be given away free during the evening. Strictly one copy per person, while stocks last.
UPDATE: These are just back from the printers BTW and they look GREAT… Behind the scenes news: Katharine and I are going to get a bit of a production line going later today to make up the finished books ready for numbering… I’ll take some photos. Don’t forget to come along to Matt’s next Friday if you’d like to get your hands on a copy!
SOIL is a text work distilled from images, events and performances created during a residency at Live Art Ireland, Tipperary in 2023 – a period of time that Meynell dedicated to thinking and reading about and working with soil. A video work of the same name was recently screened on MattFlix. The text reproduced in SOIL was first performed at Live Art Ireland, and documented in the video; part love poem, part spell, and threaded through with acrostics and word games, this edition strips away that larger work to reveal a joyful and productive residue, rich in life, ‘where matter meets in past and future…composing becoming’.
The hand-made and ephemeral character of the Piece of Paper Press format addresses itself to the way that Meynell ‘domesticates the tools of her trade… It becomes simply that medium which is at hand when a certain moment occurs or a certain event takes place.’ (Andrea Phillips, Lux Online)
Free, no booking required.
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