Shannon Bool
In 2016, our cover design features the work of the artist Shannon Bool. In her conceptually oriented practice, Bool creates collages of diferent perspectives on subjective identity and objective reality. By extracting materials and motifs from their original contexts, she develops a subversive perception of culture.
The photograms Innervisions chose for its releases originated in research Bool conducted on methodological beginnings of psychoanalysis. Bool was specifcally compelled by the interiors of Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung's consulting rooms. Artifacts from indigenous cultures and Oriental carpets had the function of activating the unconscious in order to reach hidden areas of the psyche.
The photograms are developed by means of an elaborate collage: transparent foils are placed directly on photo paper, on which the actual picture is exposed. Thereby Bool replaces the interior view of Siegel mannequins – modernist icons of consumption – with fragments of archaic ritual boards from Papua New Guinea. The empty vessels of the mannequins’ bodies seem to awaken by the sacred motifs, just like a person’s psyche is awakened through images, but also sounds.
Text by Ana Ofak
