Doing Right By You, Yael Meiry’s Artist book, 2018 // 25.5×19.5 cm, 208 pages, Soft cover, English & Hebrew // Book design for a photography artist book that presents various spaces, queer bodies and intimate conversations. Drawing on feminist research practices, the book deals with how we see and wish to be seen while referring to bodily experiences, power relations and gender fluidity // The book’s conceptual structure unfolded gradually, through in-depth dialogue with the artist and with her/his vast body of work. We decided to divide the book into four sections, so that each section revolves around a conversation between the artist and a person close to her/him. Every section-cum-conversation points to a different aspect of the artist’s work, which in turn manifests in each section’s unique choice of images and design layout. For the cover design, we created an effect of the artist looking into the book. Her/his portrait is cropped in a disconcerting way and is printed both on the outside and the inside of the cover, thereby evoking the artist’s seeming omnipresence (Editor: Shiraz Grinbaum; Text: Sivan Rajuan Shtang).
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Doing Right By You, Yael Meiry’s Artist book, 2018 // 25.5×19.5 cm, 208 pages, Soft cover, English & Hebrew // Book design for a photography artist book that presents various spaces, queer bodies and intimate conversations. Drawing on feminist research practices, the book deals with how we see and wish to be seen while referring to bodily experiences, power relations and gender fluidity // The book’s conceptual structure unfolded gradually, through in-depth dialogue with the artist and with her/his vast body of work. We decided to divide the book into four sections, so that each section revolves around a conversation between the artist and a person close to her/him. Every section-cum-conversation points to a different aspect of the artist’s work, which in turn manifests in each section’s unique choice of images and design layout. For the cover design, we created an effect of the artist looking into the book. Her/his portrait is cropped in a disconcerting way and is printed both on the outside and the inside of the cover, thereby evoking the artist’s seeming omnipresence (Editor: Shiraz Grinbaum; Text: Sivan Rajuan Shtang).
