Art-book «A Fixed Point to Be Oriented» Inma Herrera and Shirin Salehi

NEW TARGET

We are happy and grateful for having achieved the minimum funding to publish our book. Having accomplished our first goal days before the end of the campaign, we would like to invite new backers to support our project in order to ensure higher production quality, as well as a greater number of copies. We are confident that we will be able to reach this new objective in the coming weeks. THANK YOU.

PROJECT

«A Fixed Point to Be Oriented» is a paper publication by the artists Inma Herrera and Shirin Salehi, which presents our common practice during the last three years.

The book, edited in two languages -Spanish and English-, and carefully designed by Clara Sancho, brings together the visual documentation of the exhibition of the specific project designed for the Miró Foundation in Mallorca in 2021, the result of the Pilar Juncosa and Sotheby's Biennial Prize for artistic creation 2019. It also includes a poetic essay that arises from an extensive long-distance conversation with the Majorcan artist Mónica Fuster.

The exhibition at the Miró Foundation has been very important for our careers. We opened this campaign with the desire of translating it into a tangible and accessible format, for those who were unable to visit it, given the distance and fleeting nature of the show. The book registers the poetic memory of the exhibition alongside the formal and conceptual concerns that lay beneath it.

The paper publication offers a different reading experience: a slower approach, with new connections, as well as an individual, personal, and intimate encounter with the project exhibited in the museum spaces.

The book facilitates an open tempo together with a multiple reading that allows the reader walking through the past event. The artbook, conceived as an independent body, brings a materiality that connects with the poetics of the artworks -sculpture, printmaking, and video.

WHY A CROWDFUNDING CAMPAIGN

As a self-published book project, we are exploring a new way to finance the high production costs of it. The design and translations are finalized, and now we are asking for the support of the people who follow our work, so that the project can see the light with the quality it deserves.

We will be very grateful for your support to make this dream come true.

ABOUT THE DESIGN

The book will have a paperback binding with the spine exposed and a white dust cover with red typography. The content extends to around 144 pages and will be accompanied by a 52-page insert: a visual essay based on the videos of the project.

WHAT WILL YOUR CONTRIBUTIONS BE USED FOR

The contributions will be allocated in their totality to cover the expenses of prepress and printing, as well as the production costs of the rewards and their shipment.

TIME SCHEDULE

Once we receive the funding, we will start with the prepress phase. The book will go to the printing house in October 2023 and will be presented in Madrid in December, together with a new exhibition of the project at F2 gallery in Madrid. The rewards acquired during the campaign will be sent to you between November and December 2023.

WHAT DO THE REWARDS INCLUDE?

WHO ARE WE / ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Biography INMA HERRERA

Inma Herrera is a visual artist and teacher. With Andalusian roots, she was born in Madrid in 1986. She received her Fine Arts degree from the UCM. She was trained as Print Media Specialist at the School of Printmaking and Graphic Design at the Spanish Royal Mint. In 2014, she moved to Finland thanks to a Postgraduate scholarship from La Caixa Foundation to study at Kuvataideakatemia, Uniarts. Since then, she resides and develops most of her artistic practice in Helsinki. Among her artistic recognitions, it is worth mentioning the Ducat Prize 2020, Finland's oldest art prize, presented by the Finnish Art Society, being the first non-Finnish artist to receive it. Herrera was also nominated for The Kjell Nupen Memorial Grant 2017 and The Queen Sonja Print Award 2020, in Norway. She has participated in Circuitos de Artes Plásticas 2018, has been a resident of the Royal Academy of Spain in Rome between 2017/2018, and a guest artist of ARTICA Svalbard, to develop an in-site project during the Summer of 2022.

Her work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally in places such as Barjola Museum, the Federico García Lorca Center, the San Fernando Royal Academy of Fine Arts, ARCO Madrid, F2 Galería, the International Print Center in New York, the B7 LG de Kamel Lazaar Foundation in Tunisia, Kunsthalle Exnergasse in Vienna, EKA Tallinn, Amos Rex Museum, HAM Helsinki, and ForumBox Gallery in Helsinki, among others. She teaches and mentors at the Fine Arts Academy of Helsinki, as well as at Helsinki Healing Arts Center, Finland.

Biography SHIRIN SALEHI

Shirin Salehi is an Iranian-Spanish visual artist living in Spain and New York. She emigrated from Tehran in 1999 and after a few years obtained Spanish citizenship. With a first academic training in the field of science (graduated as technical Engineer in Telecommunications), she left her job in 2009 and completed her artistic training as Printmaking Specialist at the ArteDiez School of Art and Design, the Center for Contemporary Printmaking CIEC and the master’s in Art and Research at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the Complutense University of Madrid. She teaches artist's book workshops at the Center for Book Arts (New York) and poetic reasoning at the LENS School in visual narrative projects. She has been a lecturer at the Reina Sofía Museum, the Museum of Málaga and the Prado Museum (within the program Enfoques and Comparativas incomparables). Her work has received, among others, the first prize of the Ankaria Foundation for Artist’s Books (2015), the Special award of Combat Prize (Livorno, 2015) and the second prize in the Carmen Arozena International Print Award (2017). In 2022 she was nominated for The Queen Sonja Print Award in Norway. She has been resident at the Academy of Spain in Rome (2021), the Academy of France (Casa de Velázquez) in Madrid (2014) and Fondazione Il Bisonte in Florence (2016). Her work has been exhibited at Ana Serratosa gallery (Valencia), Astarté gallery (Madrid), La Neomudéjar Museum (Madrid), the Tempietto di San Pietro in Montorio (Rome), MARCO Museum (Vigo), MAC Naturgy Museum (A Coruña) and the Center for Book Arts (New York).

MORE INFORMATION

Websites:
inma-herrera.com
shirinsalehi.com

Instagram profiles:
instagram.com/inma_herrera_
instagram.com/shirinsalehi_studio