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In addition to images from the acclaimed series \"Umbra,\" this volume draws from the series \"Flamboya,\" in which she returned to Kenya, \"Parasomnia,\" a dreamlike exploration of sleep, the \"Roxane\" series, a mutual portrait created with her muse, Roxane Danset, \"Of Lotus and Mud,\" a study of procreation and fecundity, and \"Pikin Slee,\" a journey to a remote village in Suriname. This book features a contextualizing essay and an insightful interview with the artist. Throughout, Sassen emerges as a poetic photographer obsessed with light and shadow and a brilliant technician, who is a master of both vibrant color and muted hues. Selected by Sassen herself from across the last ten years, the images draw on the surrealist strategies of collage and unexpected juxtapositions to give a survey of her practice.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49735760871697,"sku":"NGR9783791384764","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/3791384767.jpg?v=1751465441"},{"product_id":"viviane-sassen-book-viviane-sassen-9783791389783","title":"Viviane Sassen","description":"Tracing a career of more than thirty years, this celebration of the prodigiously talented Dutch photographer includes vibrantly colored portraiture, landscapes, still lifes, abstract compositions, and fashion editorials.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49747959939345,"sku":"NGR9783791389783","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51061504901393,"sku":"NIN9783791389783","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51421324017937,"sku":"GOR014269296","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/3791389785.jpg?v=1751431769"},{"product_id":"sol-luna-book-viviane-sassen-9789188113672","title":"Sol \u0026 Luna","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49753611010321,"sku":"NGR9789188113672","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9188113671.jpg?v=1751001065"},{"product_id":"modern-alchemy-book-viviane-sassen-9782365680639","title":"Modern Alchemy","description":"“Alchemy is the attempt to build a world in which every thing is the mind and the hand of something other.  A world where everything breathes and yearns in unison. ”  Modern Alchemy is the brainchild of Viviane Sassen and Emanuele Coccia.  The photographer and the philosopher—both leading figures in their fields—weaved together images and words, engaging in a fruitful dialogue deeply rooted in the Champagne terroir and the inspiring relationship Maison Perrier-Jouët entertains with art and nature.   “Art and nature are not only equivalent but that they are also twins born from the same mother. ”  A series of 80 photographs and an essay intersect and collide, creating a space where the creativity of matter throughout all living things can be marveled at anew.  Pictures mix and match with ideas, the history of planet Earth encounters that of artistic creation, and matter joins hands with the mind—producing an infinitely manifold work of art and establishing a modern alchemy where both vision and thought can be upended and renewed.   “As long as matter exists, nothing can prevent it from irreparably transforming everything around it.  Such art imbues everything: each reality is more of an artist than a form. ”","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49754985038097,"sku":"NGR9782365680639","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51064567398673,"sku":"NIN9782365680639","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/2365680631.jpg?v=1751126128"},{"product_id":"folio-book-viviane-sassen-9782493467065","title":"FOLIO","description":"Folio is a collection of photographs that illustrates the birth of Dutch artist Viviane Sassen’s visual language. All of the images presented in this work were taken in the mid-1990s, when she was just embarking on her career as a photographer.  Favouring a spontaneous and personal approach, Sassen uses her immediate surroundings and environment as her preferred subjects. These images reflect a taste for staging, framing, and perspective that she delopped early on. These stylistic tools allow her to incarnate the strange and even disturbing aspects at the heart of everything we deem familiar. Initially conceived as a book project, the work would go on to be published years later, following the photographer’s encounter with Note Note Éditions.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51412871479569,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":51412871741713,"sku":"NGR9782493467065","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/249346706X.jpg?v=1751220679"},{"product_id":"viviane-sassen-venus-mercury-book-viviane-sassen-9781683952435","title":"Viviane Sassen: Venus \u0026 Mercury","description":"\u003cb\u003eAcclaimed Dutch photographer Viviane Sassen collaborates with legendary book designer Irma Boom to offer a fresh and radical vision of the Palace of Versailles.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA storied site of history, opulence, and political power, France's Palace of Versailles has long captured the imagination of both the public and many acclaimed photographers. In 2018, Viviane Sassen was invited by Versailles to make a series of photographs throughout its vast grounds. For six months, she was given free rein, often after official hours, when the buildings were empty, to wander and photograph the palace's extravagant gardens, gilded baroque interiors, and even Marie Antoinette's private correspondence. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eVenus \u0026amp; Mercury\u003c\/i\u003e is Versailles as you've never seen the storied locale before. Drawn to the bodies represented in the palace's many marble statues, Sassen created hybrid forms that play with notions of sexuality and gender and call to mind traditions of Surrealist art and the work of figures such as Hans Bellmer. The book, featuring more than one hundred images, brims with Sassen's surprising, pigment-splashed photomontages that play with vivid color and abstracted forms--and a group of women, born and raised in the town beyond the palace walls, appears throughout the book, modern-day protagonists photographed within grand palatial chambers. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA series of poems by Marjolijn van Heemstra, commissioned by Sassen, allude to histories of intrigue in court society. 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