If Only You Could See What I’ve Seen with Your Eyes, Stage 2 – Katja Novitskova
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If Only You Could See What I’ve Seen with Your Eyes, Stage 2
If Only You Could See What I've Seen with Your Eyes is an exhibition catalog showing the work of Katja Novitskova, as presented at the Estonian Center for Contemporary Arts. The book was copublished by Sternberg Press and the Kumu Art Museum. From the exhibition notes:
If Only You Could See What I’ve Seen with Your Eyes. Stage 2 works from the intersection of big data-driven industries and the expanding domain of seeing in the thick of ecological crisis. The display is an immersive environment inhabited by living machines, graphic charts embedded in synthetic materials, and two-dimensional sculptures of wild and genetically modified life forms. (...)
“If only you could see what I’ve seen with your eyes,” says the replicant Roy Batty to the maker of his eyes in the sci-fi film Blade Runner (1982) by Ridley Scott. Katja Novitskova and the curator Kati Ilves borrowed the quote for the title of the exhibition in the Estonian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2017, produced by the Centre for Contemporary Arts Estonia.
Katja Novitskova (b. 1984) is an artist originally from Tallinn, but living and working mainly in Berlin and Amsterdam. Her work lies at the intersection of visual culture, digital technologies, and speculative fiction: she is interested in how the rapidly changing planet is increasingly dependent on various data streams that mediate, preserve, and alter the environment around us in visual form.
This book takes elements from Katja Novitskova’s exhibition If Only You Could See What I've Seen with Your Eyes. The first cover features a leopoard and a bee. There are many animal representations in the book in connection with his vision at the heart of the ecological crisis. We can find wild and genetically modified life forms in the exhibition as on the cover.
For the title of the book and the headings of the pages, designer Ott Metusala chose FF Blur. The titles are composed of different font sizes and a significant texture game to blend with the textures of Novitskova’s work.
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If Only You Could See What I’ve Seen with Your Eyes
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