Event Horizon - The Eriskay Connection
Event Horizon – l'Horizon des Événements
  • Stéphanie Roland (BE)

 30

215 × 300 mm
96 pages
English
Otastar softcover
TEC066
First edition: 750
9789492051455
  • Event Horizon - The Eriskay Connection
  • Event Horizon - The Eriskay Connection
  • Event Horizon - The Eriskay Connection
  • Event Horizon - The Eriskay Connection
  • Event Horizon - The Eriskay Connection
  • Event Horizon - The Eriskay Connection
  • Event Horizon - The Eriskay Connection
  • Event Horizon - The Eriskay Connection
  • Event Horizon - The Eriskay Connection
  • Event Horizon - The Eriskay Connection
  • Event Horizon - The Eriskay Connection
  • Event Horizon - The Eriskay Connection
  • Event Horizon - The Eriskay Connection
  • Event Horizon - The Eriskay Connection
  • Event Horizon - The Eriskay Connection

Photography:
Stéphanie Roland

Design:
Rob van Hoesel

Lithography:
Sebastiaan Hanekroot (Colour&Books)

Production:
Jos Morree (Fine Books)

Print:
Wilco Art Books (NL)

Binding:
Brepols (BE)

Supported by:
Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles
European Space Agency
Kennedy Space Center
Galerie Triangle Bleu
La Fragua Art Residency
Residencia Cozarón
Kala Art Institute (Berkeley)
Smart

Event Horizon is constructed as a fictional narrative that immerses the reader in a nocturnal and mysterious atmosphere of anticipation. Stéphanie Roland (BE) shows childhood from an unusual perspective. Not the carefree, light-heartedness with which one would usually associate childhood. It rather shows the gravity and mysteries that this period of life also involves. The children in the book are frozen and absent, like the ghosts of distant memories that the mind was unable to accurately recreate.

Event Horizon depicts these children as well as their ‘mental images’. Visions of the future, ­disturbing memories and strange dreams from the subconscious. The book’s stream of images is only interrupted by deep blue pages, containing nothing more than ascending dates. Are we are looking at the past from a distant future? Or do we see the aftermaths of unknown events?

With a taste for anticipation, Roland creates a slightly menacing cosmos, a singular world where a magic ball can become an unidentified planet, a horse floats in the night sky and an astronaut is lost on a construction site. Both utopian and dystopian at the same time, this project has become a playing field of multiple photographic experiments.

Stéphanie Roland (1984) is a Brussels-based visual artist and filmmaker known for her distinctive work that blends documentary and fantasy. Her films and installations explore themes such as the invisible structures of the Western world, large timescales and hyper-objects, drawing inspiration from environmentalism, politics, geology, and the cosmos. Roland studied at La Cambre in Brussels and with Hito Steyerl at the UDK Berlin, and later completed a course at Le Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains in France. Her work has been shown at the Venice Biennale, Centre Pompidou, Louvre, Benaki Museum, Wiels, among others. Her films, including Podesta Island and Le cercle vide, have been screened at multiple international festivals and have won awards, including the Alice Guy Prize at FID Marseille and the TËNK Award at Visions du Réel.

  • Best Dutch Book Designs 2019 (student selection)

“Event Horizon demonstrates how with relatively few very simple means it is possible to construct a book that makes for a very specific and unique experience. This is what I personally expect to see in a photoboook: the confluence of all aspects — pictures, edit, sequence, layout/design, production — that results in the creation of something that simply wouldn’t hold up if just one element were missing.” (Jörg Colberg)

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