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Publisher Note

By way of archiving, digital translation and reproduction, Philip Poppek extracts from Magritte’s word paintings twenty-six letters; segmental symbols of a textual system form an alphabet of a, with a familiar apple punctuating a provisional end to the sequence. A poetic correspondence with the letter a speculates on the prehistory of this alphabet, as though searching for some indication as to how we may have come to where we are now, in this ‘post-factual moment’.

Maybe at some point we fell into the foxes’ den, only to re-surface in a landscape of ruins. This book poses a number of necessary questions, perhaps beginning with: ‘Which feminine noun trails after the title script ‘est pas une?

Pomme? Pipe? Histoire? Communauté?

Artists’ Book

'Est pas une

by Philip Poppek

Publisher
Release Place Eindhoven, Netherlands
Edition 1st edition
Release Date June 2020
Credits
Artist: Philip Poppek
Printrun 500
Identifiers
ISBN-13: 978-94-93148-33-8
Work  
Language English, German
Format Softcover

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