{"product_id":"compulsion-composition-giovanna-silva","title":"Compulsion…Composition - Giovanna Silva","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eThis is not a photography book, it is a book about exercising photography to see the world. A book about compulsion, obsession, accumulation and a consistent unquenchable thirst.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eThis book is not an artist monograph on Giovanna Silva, it is a book about Giovanna Silva. A book which meets the artist in its compulsive actions – an equivalent resonant expression of Giovanna’s voracious and abounding nature. Providing clarity through abundance, the book encourages slow focus in a world that increasingly demands instant gratification, presenting hundreds of photographs of market stall collections, taken by Giovanna over five years and across ten cities.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eDuring a three-day workshop, one thousand four hundred and twenty-two photographic prints are edited by Giovanna Silva and OK-RM (Oliver Knight and Rory McGrath). They are laid out across the studio, distilled into collections according to pictorial correlations and associations, compulsively arranged and re-arranged, setting the stage for these newly formed relationships to develop into new compositions. This compulsive act of editing is documented by photographer Thomas Adank as an active and live component of the work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eDesigned by OK-RM, \u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003eCompulsion…Composition \u003c\/span\u003eis as much about the process of making a book as it is about the photographs themselves. Conceived and realised as a social and engaged action, the process of editing has stepped out from behind the curtain and lays bare Giovanna’s insatiable desire to explore in order to find the familiar.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eGiovanna Silva lives and works in Milan. Her work has been shown at the 10th and 14th Venice Architectural Biennales, MACRO in Rome, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa in Venice, the Triennale in Milan, the American Academy in Rome, FRAC Orléans, c\/o Berlin, the Biennale de Rabat 2019, and the Italian Cultural Institute in New York. She is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of Humboldt Books and the co-founder of San Rocco magazine. She teaches Photography at NABA Milan, IUAV Venice’s master in photography program, and ISIA Urbino.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cahier Central","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":59019459789132,"sku":null,"price":46.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/7577\/7976\/files\/compulsion.jpg?v=1790864184","url":"https:\/\/cahiercentral.com\/en\/products\/compulsion-composition-giovanna-silva","provider":"Cahier Central","version":"1.0","type":"link"}