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︎ *Available for shipping April 15, 2025
︎ *Available for shipping April 15, 2025
99 Nude Collages on the Wall
by Justine Kurland
99 Nude Collages on the Wall by Justine Kurland is a Risograph-printed zine of recent SCUMB collages sourced from the pages of multiple copies of a book of female nudes by a celebrated male photographer.
Kurland exchanged copies of her own book, SCUMB Manifesto (Mack, 2022), for the raw photographic-corporeal material. The women in the photographs were instructed to recline, bend over, or otherwise contort their bodies before being hit with the flash and committed to canonical, photographic memory. Kurland's collages are acts of reclamation through productive cutting and gluing, a layering process of subtraction and addition, and near-erasure before their reconstitution. The women's bodies are liberated from the male author's gaze that rendered them as static images, from the context that encircles the book and its publication, and from the very notion of male authorship as the male-dominated canon is dismembered and discarded. Each collage is a feminist action, reprising history, dissecting patriarchy, and inverting the usual terms of possession.
Justine Kurland initiated SCUMB (Society for Cutting Up Men's Books) to purge her photobook library of books by the men who have dominated the field, monopolizing photographic language, value, and meaning. Kurland's project has evolved over half a decade, spanning from its first presentation at Higher Pictures in 2021, larger scaled works at Watershed Art & Ecology in Chicago in 2023, as well as floral collages at Dashwood Projects in New York in 2024, and has been formalized in SCUMB Manifesto, published by MACK in 2022. Kurland ritual practice here is restorative.
The exhibition 99 Nude Collages on the Wall, presented by Astor Weeks and accompanying this book, stages an installation of all the collages as a singular sprawling wallflower. Individual works will be removed as transactions are made, giving way to a wall of work that progressively dissipates with demand.
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Size: 10.75 x 8.25 in
Edition: 200
Artist Proofs: 50
Page Count: 100
Format: Softcover
Binding: Coil bound
Printing: Risograph
Paper Stock: 80 lb. Cougar Natural
Published & Printed by Seaton Street Press
Cover Text: Marina Chao
Design: Philo Cohen
Reproduction: Isaac High
Special thanks to Higher Pictures
2025 © Justine Kurland
