Thinking like an Island: Print Edition Gabriele Chiapparini + Camilla Marrese
  • Thinking like an Island: Print Edition Gabriele Chiapparini + Camilla Marrese
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  • Chiapparini & Marrese Thinking like an island print Manica Generale
  • Chiapparini & Marrese Thinking like an island print Akira
  • Chiapparini & Marrese Thinking like an island print Bagliori
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Thinking like an Island: Print Edition
Gabriele Chiapparini + Camilla Marrese

£110 – £210

Bound into an ‘unconventional’ book structure, Thinking like an Island reflects on a geographical, social and temporal space, on a system and its moveable logic. Avoiding the typical representation of an island as utopia or dystopia, this work looks at the continuous process of identity construction; clash and coexistence, choice and confinement, innovation and resistance. The experience proves to be stratified, plural and dense; a vertigo of increasing complexity.

Each print edition includes:

+ First edition copy of Thinking like an Island, Hand-signed by the artists
+ Choice of giclée print from three options, or select all three prints
(each from edition of 7)

See below for choice of print and further details

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Description

The Island is distant in the Mediterranean sea, and 675 metres in height. It’s inhabited by an uncertain number of 30 to 60 people, year-round, with no hospital, no cars, no priests or police. Some islanders never consider leaving while others tried, only to return to their lives in the remote bubble. There are untold stories, complex family trees, and historical lore surrounding the community existing on loaves of hallucinogenic-laced bread.

As our economic and social systems prove less sustainable, Chiapparini and Marrese ask if the island, where everything is reduced to minimum necessity, could be an idealistic model for surviving the crises that engulf us. Their work includes diary extracts, quotes from residents of the island, and exploratory photographs of mysterious landscapes and portraits. The book takes a poetic, philosophical approach to comprehending the wider world through the perspective of a solitary microcosm. Book concept + design by Tiffany Jones

Thinking like an island book details:
FIRST EDITION Softcover book, 17 x 22 cm portrait
224 pages across four integrated books (two sized 17×10.5 and two sized 8.4×22 cm)
Section-sewn, exposed bindings; foil on printed paper covers + spine
193 illustrations including photographs, archival images and drawings
Text by Gabriele Chiapparini and Camilla Marrese

PRINT EDITION OPTIONS:

Print Option 1: Manica Generale
Size 200x163mm, one print from an edition of seven, including a certificate of authenticity signed by the artists

Chiapparini & Marrese Thinking like an island print Manica Generale

Print Option 2: Akira
Size 200x163mm, one print from an edition of seven, including a certificate of authenticity signed by the artists

Chiapparini & Marrese Thinking like an island print Akira

Print Option 3: Bagliori
Size 200x163mm, one print from an edition of seven, including a certificate of authenticity signed by the artists

Chiapparini & Marrese Thinking like an island print Bagliori

Print Option 4: All three prints
Each print is size 200x163mm, from an edition of seven, including a certificate of authenticity signed and numbered by the artists

Chiapparini & Marrese Thinking like an island print Manica GeneraleChiapparini & Marrese Thinking like an island print AkiraChiapparini & Marrese Thinking like an island print Bagliori

Certificate of Authenticity

Each print has a signed Certificate of Authenticity, numbered in editions of seven, see example:

Certificate of Authenticity

The Author

Gabriele Chiapparini (b. 1980, Italy) and Camilla Marrese (b. 1998, Italy) are an artistic duo working mainly through photography. Bringing together their backgrounds as film director (Gabriele) and graphic designer (Camilla), they strongly believe in collaboration as a path to transform and process individual thinking into matter for collective elaboration. In this process, they aim to use photography as a tool to visually articulate – rather than answer – complex questions. Their works have been exhibited at Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven (NL), Fotografia Europea in Reggio Emilia (IT), Espaço Alto in San Paulo (BR), PhMuseum Lab in Bologna (IT), Spazio MAD in Magadino (CH), Focus Artphilein in Lugano (CH), Kranj Foto Fest (SI), Casa Testori in Milan (IT). Their work has been recipient of the PhMuseum Criticae prize (2022), and a finalist of the Luigi Ghirri Prize (2024).

instagram.com/gabrielechiapparini
instagram.com/camillamarrese

Reviews + Press

“In Thinking like an Island, Chiapparini and Marrese present identity as something never fixed—it shifts and adapts, a vertiginous dance between the forces of isolation, connection, and the deep human need to belong.” – Andrea Copetti, Tipi Bookshop

“Presented as four separate booklets bound together in a single cover, ‘Thinking Like an Island’ has no set narrative or sequence – each encounter with the book is different from the last. What emerges from these combinations and recombinations is a sense of physical and psychological isolation, and of histories, geographies and identities mutually entangled and suspended somewhere between fact and fiction.” – Eugenie Shinkle, C4 Journal

“One must be ambidextrous in opening this beautifully and cleverly crafted book about a mysterious island by the creative duo, Chiapparini & Marrese. Their creation provokes the viewer to engage in a visual and mental jigsaw puzzle with psychological overtones.” – Michael Honegger, Lenscratch

See more:
Lenscratch review by Michael Honegger
The Guardian
Tipi Bookshop review by Andrea Copetti
L’Œil de la Photographie (FR)
Noice magazine
lelitteraire (FR)

Special Notes

The authors and publisher gratefully acknowledge support provided by The Italian Cultural Institute in London, and Mistral Sailing
Italian Cultural Institute London

*Favorite Photobooks of 2024 selected by What Will You Remember?
*Selected books of November 2024, Photo London Book Club
*Recommended title by Photobookstore UK
*Recommended title by IACK Japan

9th November 2024, 12pm – Book Launch and signing at Polycopies in Paris, Concorde Atlantique
14th November 2024, 6pm – Book launch and signing at Tipi Bookshop, Brussels

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