Paul Kooiker - Eggs and rarities, 2018
Paul Kooiker’s “encyclopaedia of life” in 164 images. This ambitious but utopian project reads like a sampler of photographic genres: landscape, nude, still life, etc. To achieve this, Kooiker often uses clichés more reminiscent of the propaganda of tourist brochures or of religious and political rhetoric in the media.
Kooiker increasingly allows the personal to creep into the work. Intimate private photographs break through the seemingly objective approach so that public and private space spill over into each other. The result is one large work in which the complexity of things converge: the artist himself, the medium of photography, life and death.
24 × 31 cm, 172 p, linen hardcover, silver foil edging
Editing: Paul Kooiker & Jurgen Maelfeyt
Design: Jurgen Maelfeyt
Co-published with Dashwood Books and FOMU
Editing: Paul Kooiker & Jurgen Maelfeyt
Design: Jurgen Maelfeyt
Co-published with Dashwood Books and FOMU
Edition of 2000
