Description
Limited and numbered edition of 300. Newsprint, broadsheet, 40 pages. This artist publication is an artwork in it’s own right, related to Margret Wibmer’s research and long-term art project ‘Salon d’Amour’, a series of performances developed in collaboration with art institutions and curators in various countries.
‘Salon d’Amour’ explores love as a transformative power in the context of a polarised world and invites us to reimagine our relationships with ourselves and with others. The poems, love letters, excerpts from novels and guest contributions by artists and writers included in this publication, take the reader into transient spaces that invite an exploration of love as an antidote to its commodified version.
The publication includes loving contributions by Marianna Maruyama, Mohamedou Ould Slahi and Camila Sposati. These contemporary voices introduce new visions from their different cultural perspectives and personal experiences.
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SALON D’AMOUR by Margret Wibmer
Editor: Margret Wibmer
Concept: Margret Wibmer, PEACH Wien
Project coordination: Margret Wibmer
Graphic Design: PEACH Wien
Image processing: Margret Wibmer
Text: Margret Wibmer, authors and publishers. Marianna Maruyama, Camila Sposati, Lotte Møller,, Mohamedou Ould Slahi, Frida Kahlo (Abrams Books); James Baldwin (Penguin Modern Classics); May Ziadeh (The LA Review); Anaïs Nin, Henry Miller (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt); Ursula K. Le Guin (Shambhala); John Cage (Wesleyan University Press)
Translations: Margret Wibmer, Mohamedou Ould Slahi
Final Editing: Margret Wibmer
Lithography and printing: Newspaperclub.com
Special thanks to Georgia Grace Bosnie, Marianna Maruyama, Louis Etoundi Menanga, Lina Ramadan, Mohamedou Ould Slahi, Camila Sposati, Malaya Wibmer and supporters via contribute.to
This publication was made possible with financial support by het Cultuurfonds/Tijl Fonds, Jaap Harten Fonds, Fondskwadraat, Abteilung Kultur Land Tirol.
All rights reserved © Studio Margret Wibmer, authors and publishers.
Printed in the UK
Distribution: Studio Margret Wibmer
Contact Margret Wibmer for more information and for booking a performance. info@margretwibmer.eu
Literature references :
Baldwin, James. Excerpt from an interview with Mavis Nicholson, first aired: 02/12/1987.
Kahlo Frida. “The Diary of Frida Kahlo. An intimate Self Portrait” Abrams Books, New York. 2005. Excerpts from pages 214, 229, 248 – 250.
Baldwin, James. “Another Country” Penguin Modern Classics. Reprint 2001. Excerpts from pages 14, 61, 90, 93.
Ziadeh, May. Poems translated by Rose DeMaris. Published in The Los Angeles Review. 21 October 2021.
Nin, Anäis; Miller, Henry. “A literate passion. Letters of Anaïs Nin & Henry Miller 1932 – 1953”. A Harvest Bool. Harcourt Brace&Company. First Harvest Edition, 1989. Excerpts from pages 187, 322.
Le Guin, Ursula K. “The Wave in the mind”. Shambhala Publications, 2004. Excerpts from pages 34 – 36.
Cage, John. « The selected letters of John Cage’. Wesleyan University Press, 2016. Excerpts from pages 60 – 62.
