RACHEL HARRISON / Sitting in a Room

Rachel Harrison
Sitting in a room  2023
Hardcover, 220 pages
23 x 30cm
Gregory R. Miller & Co./Astrup Fearnley Museum

Condition: New

Rachel Harrison's new book highlights recent work and published in conjunction with her exhibition at the Astrup Fearnley Museum. Spanning mediums that include sculpture, drawing, photography and painting, Harrison’s nimble, layered method has always escaped easy categorisation. This volume documents the show’s distinctive format, with each gallery conceived as a specific room. Abstraction is shot through with vernacular references to jarring, often comic effect, as formalist concerns are forced to vie with rogue elements from the outside world. From Sculpture Court to Town Square, Gym, Living Room and Cabinet, the exhibition places the viewer in contexts both intimate and public, and the original essays commissioned here expand and deepen those trajectories. Designed by Joseph Logan in close collaboration with the artist, this richly illustrated volume includes Harrison's own photography of Sitting in a Room and reflects her unique approach to the making of both exhibitions and the catalogues that outlast them.