GIFT: I Made This For You
- Submitting institution
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University of the West of England, Bristol
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 1467502
- Type
- L - Artefact
- Location
- Berlin
- Open access status
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- Month of production
- June
- Year of production
- 2016
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Additional information
- An artist’s book in book response to the 'Angel of Bremen’, the 19th Century serial poisoner Gesche Margarethe Gottfried (1785–1831, Bremen, Germany). Designed to resemble the type of pamphlet publication/recipe book given away with newly purchased gas cookers in the 1940s/50s, it contains 14 'recipes' for 15 people. Each of the dishes was cooked and photographed by the artist in the same sequence the original dishes were prepared. GIFT in English means a present; it is also the German word for poison.
Produced for, and launched at, ‘Miss Read: The Berlin Art Book Fair’, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, 10-12 June 2016, this artist’s book was also the inspiration for a solo show ‘Sarah Bodman - I Made This For You’, for the 15th AMACI - Giornata del Contemporaneo. The exhibition was curated by Antonio Freiles and held at the Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea L. Barbera, Messina, Italy, 12 October–15 November 2019. Freiles commissioned a new artist’s book published alongside the exhibition; ‘Lago Cremisi Permanente’.
Collections: Tate Britain; British Library; Archive Artists’ Publications, Munich; Joan Flasch Artists’ Books Collection, The Art Institute of Chicago, USA; Weserburg Museum für Moderne Kunst, Bremen, Germany; Spazio Libro D’Artista, Sicily; Manly Library, NSW, Australia; School of Visual Arts Library, New York; Volumes - Zürich Archive, Switzerland; Coleção Livro de Artista da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil; Franklin Furnace Artists' Books Collection, USA; Bilkent University Library, Ankara, Turkey; University of Texas Libraries, USA; University of California, USA; Moody Memorial Library, Baylor University, USA.
Bodman’s artist’s books explore the darker side of nature and human nature. They appear beautiful in order to lead the viewer into the underlying meeting point between the opposites of tenderness and cruelty. 214 x 148 x 5 mm. Offset lithography. Edition of 500, Axminster, UK, June 2016.
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