Edmund de Waal: an Archive
Edmund de Waal
Ivorypress, 2025
€29,95
Edmund de Waal has created a book about archives that is itself archival, a gathering together of his reflections on archives from over a decade presented in chronological order. Yet the book is also cyclical. It begins in Odessa in 2009 and ends in Paris in 2021, encountering De Waal’s family archives in both places. In between are his responses to the archives of poets and artists and places he loves. In addition, it includes texts he has written for previous publications which are no longer available, indicating his own archival efforts. De Waal explores different approaches to the definition of archival work as well as the experimentation of an archive by both the viewer and its creator.
Edmund de Waal is an artist who writes. Much of his work is about the contingency of memory: bringing particular histories of loss and exile into renewed life. Both his artistic and written practice have broken new ground through their critical engagement with the history and potential of ceramics, as well as with architecture, music, dance and poetry.
ISBN: 9788412749311
