YOU ARE MINE

Fri, 1 Nov 2024
18:00-20:00
at Kunstverein am Rosa–Luxemburg–Platz

YOU ARE MINE

We are very happy to invite you to the Berlin launch of the artist book YOU ARE MINE by Daniela Comani published by Monroe Books.
 
 
The book launch marks the last opportunity to see Daniela Comani's current exhibition The Reading Room curated by Susanne Prinz and Chiara Valci Mazzara at Kunstverein am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz.
 
 
In addition, Monroe Books will present a selection of their publications. This will give you the opportunity to gain an insight into the current production of this exciting Berlin publishing house for artists' books and books on contemporary art and music.

 
The artist book YOU ARE MINE presents Daniela Comani's eponymous series of wall pieces which are printed on cotton with an aluminum background simulating wrinkled newspaper clippings. They continue her research into femicide. The work draws on brief press reports about domestic violence and violent relationship crimes. Both, the artist book and the text-images, invite the viewer to experience how a simple gender switch of the crime protagonists dramatically changes the narrative: Male becomes female, victim becomes perpetrator and vice versa. The work incorporates articles in German, Italian and English. It highlights the urgency of the issue, revealing it as a pressing problem right on our doorstep.
The book has been published on the occasion of the exhibitions Daniela Comani: The Reading Room at Kunstverein am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin in 2024. and the Bangkok Art Biennale, 2024 – 2025. Some of the text-images in the book were first presented in You Are Mine at the at Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea in Rome 2022.
 
 
YOU ARE MINE
Daniela Comani
Languages: English/Italian/German
Format: 21 cm x 29,7 cm
Pages: 72, brochure
Edition: 300
Year of publication: 2024
ISBN: 978-3-946950-17-2
Price: €20
A numbered and signed limited edition with a special cover of cotton and aluminium
is available at €100,00.