Erik Kessels & Thomas Sauvin: Talk Soon - (Spiral Bound)

Book Synopsis

A wordless, quarantined dialogue in flipbook form

Every day, throughout that tumultuous spring of 2020, Dutch artist Erik Kessels (born 1966) and French artist Thomas Sauvin (born 1983) sent one another idiosyncratic, uncaptioned photographs, catalyzing an organic, free-associative exchange of some 120 archival images. Atelier Éditions' author Kingston Trinder then composed an equally free-associative, altogether whimsical narrative with which to further entwine the duo's eclectic photographs. These two archives of vernacular photography, one from the East, the other from the West, achieve a dialogue through the recurrence of photographic practices, aesthetics and subjects.
Talk Soon, a tearaway postcard book with a spiral binding, allows readers to endlessly juxtapose the delightful photographs selected by the two quarantined artists.

Review Quotes

A wordless dialogue which spanned several months as the world began to lockdown and quarantine amid the worsening pandemic... There is a sense of play and irreverence in their photo-based conversation which utilizes the kitschy and whimsical as much as it does the quotidian... A tribute to the mind's associative power...--Aida Amoako "Brooklyn Rail"