The Overcoat

Artists book work, with text by Nicolai Gogol, is presented alongside a specially produced body of photographic works using act of republication as a radical intervention which inserts historical material into the present and re-contextualises contemporary artworks in relation to past productions.

The Overcoat is a book work that features 17 new photographic works presented alongside the full text of a translation of Russian author Nicolai Gogol’s darkly comic acclaimed novella The Overcoat (1842). The photographs aim to become a reflection on history, artistic re-purposing and the status of desire in relation to commodities & cultural artefacts. Published by Four Corners Books and is tenth in their series of Artist's Familiars which includes Heart of Darkness (Banner/ Conrad) and Canterbury Tales (Chetwynd/ Chaucer).