Works on Toilet Paper

Works on Toilet Paper is a limited edition art book featuring the works of artist Sophie Vallance Cantor, published by bruise studio in Berlin, Germany. It is riso printed on kitchen towel paper following a narrative of personal stories drawn on toilet paper squares and napkins from the beginning of her career, when in lack of financial stability or opportunities she was stealing toilet paper and napkins from the cafe she used to work in Berlin, to draw on.

The book is meant to celebrate and give value to the work of an artist in its progress - or rather as a sketch - and not only as a final product. It questions how we capitalise on an artist’s worth as well as thematises the insecurities and precarities of a woman at the beginning of her career: from rejection letters, lack of money for materials, to kidney stones and UTIs. The title of the book is a snide remark to the classic collection of drawings or sketches on paper that is being capitalised on as the artist dies and the art market can exploit their secure worth.

Works on Toilet Paper
Sophie Vallance Cantor
bruise studio, 2023

Hard cover, with an embossed and screen-printed front cover, and comes in a custom-made screen-printed tote bag.
hand bound with a classic japanese stab-stich.

Edition of 50, signed and numbered