Raimundas Malašauskas: Suzon

where Raimundas Malašauskas presents his new/old book Suzon (2025). Arranged in a kind of true mirror sandwich, this double volume combines his previously sold-out book of collected writings Paper Exhibition (2012) starting upside-down from the back, with new texts published over the intervening 13 years, reading from the front. The book’s title is borrowed from the woman who modeled for Édouard Manet’s A Bar at the Folies-Bergère (1882), a painting which itself is organized around a prominent mirror.

It is gorgeous, and deranging, and reminds me of why I liked art in the first place. I like the idea that you might just keep writing books and letting them grow together in odd ways, like tree trunks merging and dividing. (Sal Randolph)

Adventures from the past years, entrances and exits, a navigation of what’s imaginable through words against the background of life. (Jessica Warboys)