A House of Clay — Erik Gustafsson — Loose Joints — 2024

In A House of Clay, Erik Gustafsson treats photographs as materials that can be worked on again. Everyday encounters, intimate moments and ordinary objects pass through repeated cycles of printing, manipulation and scanning, carrying the marks of darkroom experiments into the image. Chance and technical failure become part of a process that keeps each picture open to change. Across the book, images turn, overlap and gather into sequences before giving way to new associations. Gustafsson connects this restless handling of photographic matter with an attentive relationship to daily life: small occurrences become occasions for feeling and discovery. The landscape format and Swiss binding provide space for a work shaped as much by making prints as by taking photographs.

Technical Sheet
Title: A House of Clay
Artist: Erik Gustafsson
Publisher: Loose Joints
Published: February 2024
Edition: Standard edition
Pages: 152
Illustrations: 161 colour plates
Dimensions: 288 × 208 mm
Binding: Swiss-bound debossed landscape softcover
Language: English
Texts: Elisa Medde and Louis Nitze
Editors: Loose Joints and Erik Gustafsson
Design: Loose Joints
Publisher reference: LJ197
Artist country: Sweden
ISBN: 9781912719549