Publisher Note
For the sixth edition of Baron, artist Petra Collins flips the camera lens onto herself... more specifically into herself. Uninhibited, gross, disjointed, and confusing, Collins places us in a world filled with perverse personal thoughts and lucid landscapes.
With the book’s Hungarian title Miért vagy te, ha lehetsz én is? Collins asks us: Why be you, when you can be me? Collins uses the camera as the third person. It captures historical truths (such as a time and place) and an emotional reality with a complicated relationship to intention and perception. Working with the sculptor Sarah Sitkin, Collins creates moulds of her body as well as her sisters to gain ownership, in a world where our bodies live in multiple realities. This new body of work features Collins first experiments with self-portraiture.
Baron by Petra Collins
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| Edition | 1st edition |
| Release Date | September 2020 |
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| Printrun | 2000 |
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| Language | English |
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| Format | Hardcover |
| Dimensions | 22.0 × 28.5 cm |
| Weight | 1,077 gram |
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| Pages | 166 |
