20 October 2022: 10×10 hosted a salon with Brazilian photographer Claudia Jaguaribe and Swiss-based publisher Winfred Heininger of Kodoji Press at the Penumbra Foundation in Manhattan. Jaguaribe shared her new book Asphalt Flower (Editions Bessard, 2022), while Heininger discussed his creative book collaborations with photographers.
Claudia Jaguaribe’s Asphalt Flower (Editions Bessard, 2022) is a leporello book: one huge, single image which creates a “second Nature.” The work revisits the idea of landscape as a garden which expresses what connects Humans to Nature. It is an iconic place for the cycles of life (growth, flowering and decline) and a reflection of the society that shapes it. The superimposed images of flowers symbiotically entering asphalt forms shows us a surface that encapsulates nature since biblical times and can no longer be separated from it. Nature and culture are inextricable, one becoming the other. The photographic composition takes form between the idea of a world that seems to be heading towards a natural disaster and a future in which it struggles to maintain the force of resilience and resistance.
Claudia Jaguaribe’s work is mainly focused on the urban landscape and environmental issues. The materiality of her works questions the very nature of photography as she expands traditional formats by creating photo sculptures. She has 20 books published and recognized by the singularity of the photographic integration and graphic design. (@cjaguaribe)
Winfried Heininger designs and publishes books under the imprint of Kodoji Press. Amongst those publishing in the field of art and photography books, Heininger is one of the very few to consistently push editorial projects to their limits. He is questioning standards in book production and challenging conventional formats. (@kodoji_press)
A big thank you to Geoffrey Berliner and Leandro Villaro at Penumbra for hosting this salon.