Honorable Mention TOKYO-2020 Book / Fine Art

We Kept On Dancing Like It Didn'T Matter

  • Photographer
    Giannina Urmeneta Ottiker
  • Technical Info
    Book Size: 22cm X 16,5. Semi Hard Cover, Foldable. Open Spine. Self Published.
  • Photo Date
    2020

This book is about memories and distance, about missing. Through pictures, drawings and texts I go back and forth in time. Just how we remember things. How we forget them. Repeating stories in our heads again and again. Changing how we tell them. Fragments and details of my past. My own and yet universal. Leaving loved ones behind. Missing. The distance. Death. The dummy of this book was made during a workshop by Void (independant publisher). 8 artists were selected to participate, including myself.

Giannina Urmeneta Ottiker is a visual artist, lives and works in Belgium. After her studies in the academy of fine arts in Gent she worked as the house photographer of arts centre Vooruit for 8 years. She has had a long artistic parcours, having shown work in Belgium and other countries. She works regularly with Cecilia Jaime Gallery in Gent and until last year with Gallery 44, Brugge She is now working on new upcoming projects: Group exhibition in Gallery Cecilia Jaime (dec 2020 Gent),'Van Eyck Cosmopoliet' (March 2021 Gent), a book publication, exhibition'Unknown Masters'(March 2021 Knokke).