In fact, Verónica so incessantly makes this case for her talent for. A sustained literary mediation on our image-drenched age. VERÓNICA GERBER BICECCI: From the start Verónica charms the reader by exuberantly declaring herself a collector of beginnings, of outsets, of definitively unfinished landscapes stretching over flooded excavations, bare foundations, and ruined structures. Wonderfully, the whole thing kicks off with an illustrated (hand lettering w/ drawings) piece by Verónica Gerber Bicecci, translated by Christina MacSweeney, which provides an illuminating (and fun!) framework for understanding how text and images interact: “Some words are incapable of forming and image” atop an image of the word FUTURE. A helpful line: “I only remember sunny days, although I know this is because Henryk, your uncle and the family photographer, only took out his camera when the sun was shining.” Rodrigo Flores Sanchez’s contribution is white text on black paper interspersed with haunting artworks that recall in their eeriness Michael Lesy’s Wisconsin Death Trip.

Sznajderman’s piece is, or becomes, “a symbolic story about life in the pre-Holocaust world” through the use of documentary photographs of family members she never knew, living in and running a boarding house that she never knew. Monika Sznajderman’s contribution, an extract from a longer project called “The Pepper Forgers,” is also led cautiously by photographs. 1981, Mexico) from la Caixa Collection of Contemporary Art. by Victoria Baer), an obsession with a Nadar portrait of the 19th-century black Cuban singer Maria Martinez leads to a magnificent short story about fiction-making and possibility, exploitation and control. These works have been selected by writer and visual artist Verónica Gerber Bicecci (b.

Hardly anything was visible is followed by an extremely detailed if somewhat inscrutable drawing of a wall seen. It is an experimental, fragmented novel, expertly and artfully translated from the Spanish by Christina MacSweeney.

Fresh translations (prose and poetry) from Verónica Gerber Bicecci, Marie NDiaye, Yi SangWoo, and others come together for a collection that specifically investigates the relationships between images and text in uncommon, eye-opening ways. Empty Set is the first book from Verónica Gerber Bicecci, described as a visual artist who writes.

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