Wimper

Wimper, err, reveal, correct, lapse, balk, lie, flick, curl, flatten, tease, tweak, right, locate, sliver, cleave, eke, flail, stave, organise, yank, taut, hold, drift, strike–dumb, stun, fry, grunt, writhe, rally, fly, lift, would–be, debris, piece, plumb, listen, collect, control, determine, lash, flounder, fold, pang, upend, throw, stiff, bliss, buoy, top, crescendo, blot, crash, beat, sink, emulsify, nowhere, apart, fragment, float, nothing, freight, sigh, ebb, rest, less, adapt, arrest, pull, thrash, compose, point, touch, repose, strike, punt, remain, scourge, fling, return’ is 81 found eyelashes scanned directly on to the drum of a risograph printer and printed, one per spread, to irritate the context of what is supposed to be an exhibition catalogue published to accompany the exhibition ‘Faltering, light under two screw holes…’ at SE8 Gallery, London.

From the back cover: ‘Alex Farrar’s book Wimper (the Dutch term for eyelash, or a potential misspelling of the English for ‘whimper’) presently held by the reader is an extension of an exhibition, which may be experienced in its own right, after the space has been vacated. It operates on the limits of material evidence by reprising a series of earlier prints entitled Behavioural Residues (second sweep), featuring barely perceptible images of single eyelashes spread throughout the texts and pages. Apart from their significance as intimate materials discarded by the body over time, such as hair or skin, they submit to the almost nothing of an aesthetics of disappearance, while lingering in a dialectics of misunderstanding that commits to a lack of closure.

Wimper

Alex Farrar
Mulberry Tree Press, 2019
171 x 114 x 10 mm, 160 pages, cold glue bound
one colour risograph printed interior, with an offset printed gatefold cover, both Freelife Vellum (Fedrigoni)
edition of 300

Texts by Nicolas de Oliveira and Nicola Oxley, and David Price. Graphic design by studioHendriksen, risograph printed by Alex Farrar in studioHendriksen, Amsterdam, with the cover offset printed by ZwaanLenoirSchuring and bound by AGIA (The Netherlands).

ISBN: 978-1-9160949-1-8