Lutz Bacher, Burning the Days: An Exhibition

Lutz Bacher, Burning the Days: An Exhibition

Helena Kritis, Solveig Øvstebø (editors) • Roma Publications

ISBN-10: 9464461071 · ISBN-13: 978‑9464461077 · 2026

Dimensions: 22 × 29 cm

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Kate Nesin takes The Betty Center — Bacher's archive of nearly 300 black binders, later realised as an artwork — as a point of departure to examine her engagement with archives, containers, and readymade forms. Juliane Rebentisch reads Bacher's work as a sustained practice of opacity that stages accumulation, self-exposure, humour, and citation to unsettle fixed identities and disrupt the clichés through which meaning is usually secured. Finally, Emily LaBarge reads Bacher through the logic of the pun, showing how her works hinge on double meanings and perceptual slippages that make uncertainty the condition of viewing. Burning the Days: An Exhibition occupies a distinct place within the lineage of Bacher’s artist books. It is the first major publication on Bacher produced entirely after her death and without her direct involvement or design input. Design: Julie Peeters.

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