2x 212 x 304mm books, 152 pages total, Colour printing, Perfect bound, Debossed jacket, Comes with stickers, 2025

A quasi-catalogue for the eponymous show at Parcel in Tokyo, Japan.  

As terms like ‘movies’ and ‘flicks’ suggest, the etymology of animation carries a direct meaning of ‘moving images’ and ‘flickering light.’ Furthermore, the very word “to animate” stems from the Latin animare, meaning “to breathe life into.” For Sadler and Maurice, animation is not merely a form expression using moving-images but an act of imbuing the inanimate with life. Animation is conceived as an act that defies stasis, open to transformation and boundless potential.

For Sadler and Maurice, animation goes beyond the conventional ideas of “lowbrow” or “for children,” embodying the richness of expression that emerges outside the structures of institutional art. By drawing attention to imagery rooted in subculture and outsider practices, they offer a critical perspective on the art world’s marginalized spaces.

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