180 x 180, 72 pages, full colour printing, perfect bound, 2023

Published on the occasion of Hair and Body by American artist Rachel Eulena Williams. The exhibition marks Williams first solo exhibition in a UK institution, bringing together a new suite of works spanning painting, assemblage and installation. The work foregrounds the artist’s liberation of colour, radical exploration of materials and playful experimentation.

The publication contains a conversation between Williams and curator Jessica Taylor, focusing on the new work Williams made for the exhibition, her ways of working and the physical intimacy inherent in the making of and the interactions with the work. This conversation sits alongside a newly commissioned text by multidisciplinary artist Irineu Destourelles, which takes the form of a fictional interview – in reality, an imagined dialogue between Destourelles with the canon of modern art, tackling its understanding of colour. The publication also includes a preface by DCA Director Beth Bate, alongside full colour images of the exhibition.

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