A new anthology bringing together ten artist commissions and twenty-two texts from Autograph’s commissioning programme Care | Contagion | Community — Self & Other.

Initiated during the first national lockdown in spring 2020, Autograph commissioned ten UK-based visual artists – Mohini Chandra, Poulomi Desai, Joy Gregory, Othello De’Souza-Hartley, Sonal Kantaria, Ope Lori, Dexter McLean, Karl Ohiri, Silvia Rosi and Aida Silvestri – to create new work responding to the wider contexts of the Covid-19 crisis.

Using primarily photography and film, the artists reflect carefully and critically, often very personally, on the impact of the pandemic, their lived experiences, and the inevitability of change. To contextualise these new artist commissions, we invited ten writers – poets, scholars and curators – to produce a short essay in response, and published a series of interviews with each artist discussing their practice.

Presented together in this beautifully designed book, the texts and artist commissions offer thoughtful reflections on changing conditions of existence: generous invitations to contemplate what it means to be human, and how we might care for one another.

With a new introductory essay Reflections on Creative / Pandemic Time by Autograph’s senior curator Renée Mussai, and Foreword by our director Mark Sealy. Published to accompany the Care | Contagion | Community — Self & Other exhibition currently on view at Autograph.

Artists:
Mohini Chandra
Poulomi Desai
Othello De’Souza-Hartley
Joy Gregory
Sonal Kantaria
Ope Lori
Dexter McLean
Karl Ohiri
Silvia Rosi
Aida Silvestri

Text contributions by:
Raymond Antrobus
Krasimira Butseva
Anthony Downey
Loren Hansi Gordon
Dr Susha Jansari
Dave Lewis
Tarini Malik
Anne McNeill
Renée Mussai
Mark Sealy
Bindi Vora
Campbell X
Lola Young

Published by Autograph, 2021 to accompany the exhibition Care | Contagion | Community — Self & Other at Autograph in London, 23 September 2021 - 12 February 2022. Exhibition curated by Renee Mussai, Mark Sealy and Bindi Vora

Edited by Renée Mussai and Mark Sealy, with editorial assistance by Bindi Vora

Designed Fraser Muggeridge Studio

Pages: 244

Dimensions: 170 x 240 mm

Softcover

Paper: Arena White Rough 120gsm

Full colour

Supported using public funding by Arts Council England

ISBN-10 1-899282-98-X

ISBN-13 978-1-899282-2

EAN 9781899282982

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