KINTSUGI – Joan Fontcuberta, Editorial RM

A meditative photobook that embraces rupture and repair, echoing the Japanese art of mending with gold through a conceptual lens by Joan Fontcuberta.

In KINTSUGI, Joan Fontcuberta turns the metaphor of broken ceramics mended with gold into a visual and philosophical inquiry. Drawing from the traditional Japanese technique that celebrates fracture as part of an object’s history, Fontcuberta reimagines the photographic medium as a site of healing and transformation.

The book emerges from a project supported by the Government of Andorra and unfolds like a reflective essay in images and texts. Each crack, each seam, becomes a testament to survival and reinvention—resonating deeply in a world marked by personal and collective fragilities. Designed with delicate Japanese binding and a cover that mimics the gold-veined surface of kintsugi pottery, the publication blurs the boundaries between documentation, art book, and sculptural object.

With contributions by Xavier Antich, Céline Fribourg, and Montserrat Ronchera, and translations by Graham Thomson, this edition by Editorial RM honors the contemplative pace of repair. It invites readers not only to observe but to feel the quiet resilience embedded in fractured beauty.

• Object: Artist Book / Exhibition Catalogue
• Title: KINTSUGI
• Artist / Author: Joan Fontcuberta
• Texts: Xavier Antich, Joan Fontcuberta, Céline Fribourg, Montserrat Ronchera
• Date: 2021
• Technique / Printing Method: Offset
• Medium / Materials: Paper, Japanese binding
• Edition: #401
• Signed: No
• Dimensions: approx. 29 x 21 cm
• Language: Multilingual (likely Catalan, Spanish, English)
• Pages: Not specified
• Publisher / Editor: Editorial RM (Barcelona & Mexico City), Ministry of Culture and Sports, Government of Andorra
• ISBN: 978-84-17975-47-0
• Condition: Fine
• Provenance: Darwin Collection