
Father Country I Do Love You
- Publisher
- Hatje Cantz
- Year
- 2026
- ISBN
- 9783775763257
- Specifications
- Hardcover
696 pages
8 7/8 x 13 3/16 inches
Design by Joseph Logan
Published on the occasion of the exhibition at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
He acted as a middleman, witnessing events great and small, collecting evidence for someone else to slot into the bigger picture. Everything he touched ricocheted to the outer boundaries of nations and lives he'd never know. This artist's book traces the life of an unnamed federal agent through 42 chapters, bringing together hundreds of photographs, text, video, and sculpture. In this labyrinth of stories, the artist uncovers the ripple effects of her protagonist's actions and inactions, intertwining accounts of victims, predators, survivors, and the mechanics of justice. This narrative is shadowed by the life of the artist's own father, who lived in Thailand and traveled to Russia, Iran, Israel, China, Afghanistan, Korea, and elsewhere while working for the U.S. government, before ending his career manufacturing and selling arcade games.