# The Swamp

- **Brand:** MACK
- **Price:** $235.00
- **Catalog:** mackbooks
- **Retailer:** mackbooks
- **Product URL:** https://go.cosimo.shop/r/gAAAAABqzpTJi33vOjs0XTBQa-_td95r8E3RpXvhMmnHCuAZYNi2dsDd0jHX8-FCBv5TU4aI0arTh74tZlfkmKVx1snFsvNYdk0Vs2E294DKbY5Bkf3mLbiW-nu9tYaNLeSKTYpjmW3Kkp-BWzeXtIvLe4_04e9F05VbH1q4arMUpAYBxKLGT-g6IaRP-c7I0OHKaVOoxzgNpNRvZBet46_u2H9Dgg1Wk1NnXh69UxadUFZIvJ8fNT6juuZJV4H13ntvTenNFxHJJtrPj6VW69w0mcoWY26BZ7Xgm0NHoYWBzjoQMZlBV_o6oQqImTsz04c0vrazUCOUc3QfnQajfxcKznnwh4bxDeNwpMt1NvVPGp6N3pZfU3qQE2CBAa2US1mVA-PpDi5WsoiDF06Ir7UmkEmGH5sobyEPC5NvuEp8xuh0mdG1WzlE7oZgli9TGFLduFvyxcwy
- **GTIN:** 978-1-910164-62-4
- **Availability:** Out of stock

## Summary

The Swamp by Sofia Borges, a contemporary photography book featuring an open spine softcover design with a wraparound dust jacket, exploring natural landscapes through a series of leaden, impenetrable images.

## Description

Winner of the 2016 MACK First Book Award “Reality as mud as dense as air” reads the spine of Sofia Borge’s book The Swamp, and equally, the series of photographs that she presents is as leaden as it is impenetrable. Spanning a seven-year period, it largely records Borges’ countless visits to natural history museums, zoos, aquariums and research centres where the artifice of reality became her point of focus. For Borges, displays such as dioramas serve as the ultimate form of representation, where objects have the virtuous task of representing “themselves” – a type, genre or group that is inherently bound to language through layers of history and meaning. As a motionless walrus lies in its plastic Antarctic locale and the beady eye of a fossilised bird catches your glance, what glares back at you from the depths of The Swamp is not the thing itself, but the image, of an image, of an image.    “What I seek are images, which, in their very artifice, are able to present themselves as a problem”, Borges has said. Beyond the comical absurdity of museological spectacles that spawn the living dead,The Swamp takes aim at the notion that images can be “read”. Taking inspiration from the insoluble language of Beckett on the one hand, and the cinematic mind-twists of Lynch on the other, Borges disrupts logical processes of comprehension, offering seemingly random sequences of images, whose monstrous forms and coarse surfaces purposefully assault the senses. Sofia Borges (b. 1984) is a Brazilian-born artist living between Paris and São Paulo. As winner of the 2016 First Book Award, her first photography book The Swamp was published by MACK. She has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions across Europe and in South America, North America, China, and Qatar. In 2012, she partook in the 30th São Paulo Biennial and has since been granted numerous awards, including nominations for the Paul Huf Award (2013, 2014).

## Appearance

- **Fit:** Unsigned

## Variants

- **In stock:** 0 of 2

| SKU | Availability |
| --- | --- |
| 9781910164624 | Out of stock |
| 9781910164625S | Out of stock |

## Additional Attributes

- **ISBN:** 978-1-910164-62-4
- **tags:** 2016, Brazilian photographer, female artist, First Book Award, First Book Award 2016, Sofia Borges, transfer
- **pages:** 184 pages
- **author:** Sofia Borges
- **format:** Open spine softcover book with wraparound dust jacket
- **vendor:** MACK
- **binding:** Open spine softcover book with wraparound dust jacket
- **publisher:** MACK
- **dimensions:** 21 x 26 cm
- **page count:** 184 pages
- **shopify handle:** the-swamp-br-sofia-borges
- **publication date:** Publication date: May 2016
- **dimensions and pages:** 21 x 26 cm, 184 pages

## Enrichment

- **Type:** photography book
- **Type Synonyms:** art book, monograph
- **Tags:** softcover, open spine, dust jacket, black and white photography
- **Styles:** minimalist, contemporary
- **Category Path:** Media > Books > Print Books
- **Book cover type:** Soft
- **Genre:** Arts
- **Language version:** ENG- English
- **Target audience:** Adults
- **Canonical Brand:** MACK

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