Publication launch
May 2019
Fogo Island Arts is pleased to announce the 2019 publication of Wilfrid Almendra: Light Boiled Like Liquid Soap.
The seventh volume in FIA’s publication series accompanies Wilfrid Almendra’s exhibition Light Boiled Like Liquid Soap, curated by Alexandra McIntosh and Nicolaus Schafhausen and presented at the Fogo Island Gallery from March 25 to October 9, 2016. The book features a critical essay by Anne Faucheret, a work of speculative fiction by Nicolas Idier, poetry by Jorge Armando Sousa, a conversation between Wilfrid Almendra, Alexandra McIntosh and Nicolaus Schafhausen, and is richly illustrated with original colour photography and installation views.
Light Boiled Like Liquid Soap is an immersive installation featuring radio transmission and a series of sculptural elements made of copper, plaster, and silicone in various states of dematerialization. Combining found and repurposed materials, the works attest to notions of desire, circulation, and flux, from protective spaces of retreat to global economies of exchange. Based in Marseille, Almendra was an artist-in-residence with Fogo Island Arts in 2015.
Edited by Alexandra McIntosh and Nicolaus Schafhausen
Available through the Woodshop on Fogo Island.
Wilfrid Almendra: Light Boiled Like Liquid Soap
Copublished by Fogo Island Arts and Sternberg Press
Design by Surface
April 2019, English
15 x 21 cm, 116 pages, 20 colour ill., softcover
ISBN 978-3-95679-474-2
About Fogo Island Arts
Fogo Island Arts (FIA) is a residency-based contemporary art venue for artists, filmmakers, writers, musicians, curators, designers, and thinkers from around the world. Since 2008, FIA has brought some of the most exciting emerging and renowned artists of today to Fogo Island, Newfoundland, to take part in residencies and to present solo exhibitions at the Fogo Island Gallery. FIA also presents programs in cities across Canada and abroad, including the Fogo Island Dialogues interdisciplinary conversation series, as part of its international outreach. FIA is an initiative of Shorefast, a registered Canadian charity with the mission to build economic and cultural resilience on Fogo Island.
Contact
T + 1 709 266 1248 / info@fogoislandarts.ca
