Fiona Connor – KIT, 2023
This publication was developed over a year and catalogues the photographs Fiona Connor takes as tools for making sculptures while also considering how she prints and uses these images in her studio. Over five thousand images have been edited and collated into stapled book blocks arranged chronologically. The photographs record architectural details, materials, and specific objects to enable a sculptural language that utilizes processes of mimicry and reproduction. When seen together, they operate like a stream of consciousness recorded through the push of a fingertip on a phone screen.
KIT is a series of forty-nine unique artist books, each comprising a different group of one hundred photographs on sheets of recycled paper, bound by five heavy-duty staples. The images are laser-printed single-sided in black and white to replicate how they inhabit the artist’s studio. The book blocks are housed in custom-made manilla folders, with graphic design by Ben Greehy and screen printed by Fiona Connor. An insert card accompanies this project, providing an index of the different cover pages.
Fiona Connor (b. 1981, Auckland, New Zealand) currently lives and works in Los Angeles, California. Recent solo exhibitions include Drawing something under itself (2023), Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf; Continuous Sidewalk (2023), Château Shatto, Los Angeles; Long Distance (2022), Maureen Paley, London; #4, Closed for installation (2019), SculptureCenter, New York; #8, Closed for Installation, Sequence of Events (2019), Secession, Vienna; Closed Down Clubs (2018), MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles.
Images & screen printing:
© Fiona Connor
Editing & book design:
Luís Manuel Araújo & Oliver Evans
Graphic design:
Ben Greehy
KIT was launched at Kunstverein Düsseldorf on 18 November 2023. It has been stocked by Buchhandlung Walther König and is held in private and institutional collections, including Tate Library Special Collections (Artists’ Books) in London and CCA Bard in New York.
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