{"product_id":"sketches-viviane-sassen-polaroids-made-in-africa-2002-2010","title":"Sketches — Viviane Sassen: Polaroids Made in Africa 2002–2010","description":"\u003cp data-start=\"134\" data-end=\"583\"\u003eThis photobook by Viviane Sassen, published in 2015 by Kominek Books, is part of the Darwin archive because it opens a raw, intimate window into the artist’s early African work and her visual process. \u003cem data-start=\"335\" data-end=\"345\"\u003eSketches\u003c\/em\u003e is not a retrospective, but a loose constellation of ideas—fleeting, sensuous, almost overheard—drawn from Polaroids shot during her travels across the continent between 2002 and 2010, during the period of the landmark \u003cem data-start=\"565\" data-end=\"575\"\u003eFlamboya\u003c\/em\u003e series.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"585\" data-end=\"1029\"\u003eSassen uses the instant medium not for nostalgia, but for immediacy: compositions are experimental, tactile, layered. The images—children with flowers in their mouths, arms interlaced beneath the beach sun, bodies caught in patterns of shadow and pigment—arrive not as resolved works but as visual thinking in motion. Reproduced as stacks and overlays of images, the book mimics the feel of an artist’s desk or a contact sheet brought to life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1031\" data-end=\"1320\"\u003eDesigned by Sybren Kuiper with a restrained yet sensorial materiality—embossed cardboard cover, black thread stitching—the publication feels like a sculptural object. It’s a minor book in the best sense: modest, searching, and elemental. A physical sketchbook of vision, form, and gesture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1322\" data-end=\"1341\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"1322\" data-end=\"1341\"\u003eTechnical Sheet\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1343\" data-end=\"1697\"\u003eTitle: \u003cem data-start=\"1350\" data-end=\"1413\"\u003eSketches — Viviane Sassen: Polaroids Made in Africa 2002–2010\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr data-start=\"1413\" data-end=\"1416\"\u003eArtist \/ Author: Viviane Sassen\u003cbr data-start=\"1447\" data-end=\"1450\"\u003eDate: 2015\u003cbr data-start=\"1460\" data-end=\"1463\"\u003eTechnique \/ Printing Method: Polaroid photography, digital reproduction\u003cbr data-start=\"1534\" data-end=\"1537\"\u003eMedium \/ Materials: Embossed cardboard cover, stitched binding\u003cbr data-start=\"1599\" data-end=\"1602\"\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr data-start=\"1619\" data-end=\"1622\"\u003ePages: Not specified\u003cbr data-start=\"1642\" data-end=\"1645\"\u003ePublisher \/ Editor: Kominek Books\u003cbr data-start=\"1678\" data-end=\"1681\"\u003eCondition: New\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DaRWIN","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52432019259730,"sku":null,"price":20.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0999\/7058\/0818\/files\/MAISONSCLOSES_6a8e81e1-3535-467b-8385-d57f0945d7f5.jpg?v=1768211367","url":"https:\/\/thedarwin.es\/products\/sketches-viviane-sassen-polaroids-made-in-africa-2002-2010","provider":"DaRWIN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}