
Borders of nothingness – On the mend
- Publisher
- The(M) éditions
- Year
- 2020
- ISBN
- 979-10-95424-17-8
- Specifications
- Couverture rigide
14 x 19 cm
96 pages
50 photographs
330 copies numbered + 30 hors commerce (signed)
Co-published with IBASHO
Text (French / English) by Katherine Oktober Matthews
Design by Studio Julia
In the infinite flow of everything, people come and go in our lives. In Borders of Nothingness, Dutch photographer Margaret Lansink dwells in the transitional ambiguity of her adult daughter's decision to suspend contact with her, photographing landscapes and nude women whose disappearing presence raises the haunted question: is this the moment you were gone? As time passed, Lansink and her daughter reconnected to investigate whether their break could be mended. Lansink then revisited and reinterpreted her images in a physical practice that mirrored their emotional efforts of healing: inspired by the Japanese art of kintsugi, she tore images and reassembled them with gold leaf, transforming fracture into beauty. Grand Prize Winner Hariban Award 2019.