{"product_id":"justine-kurland-99-nude-collages","title":"Justine Kurland: 99 Nude Collages","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e99 Nude Collages on the Wall\u003c\/i\u003e by Justine Kurland is a Risograph-printed zine of recent SCUMB collages sourced from the pages of multiple copies of a book of female nudes by a celebrated male photographer.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKurland exchanged copies of her own book, \u003ci\u003eSCUMB Manifesto \u003c\/i\u003e(Mack, 2022), for the raw photographic-corporeal material. The women in the photographs were instructed to recline, bend over, or otherwise contort their bodies before being hit with the flash and committed to canonical, photographic memory. Kurland's collages are acts of reclamation through productive cutting and gluing, a layering process of subtraction and addition, and near-erasure before their reconstitution. The women's bodies are liberated from the male author's gaze that rendered them as static images, from the context that encircles the book and its publication, and from the very notion of male authorship as the male-dominated canon is dismembered and discarded. Each collage is a feminist action, reprising history, dissecting patriarchy, and inverting the usual terms of possession.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJustine Kurland initiated \u003ci\u003eSCUMB\u003c\/i\u003e (Society for Cutting Up Men's Books) to purge her photobook library of books by the men who have dominated the field, monopolizing photographic language, value, and meaning. Kurland's project has evolved over half a decade, spanning from its first presentation at Higher Pictures in 2021, larger scaled works at Watershed Art \u0026amp; Ecology in Chicago in 2023, as well as floral collages at Dashwood Projects in New York in 2024, and has been formalized in \u003ci\u003eSCUMB Manifesto\u003c\/i\u003e, published by MACK in 2022. Kurland ritual practice here is restorative.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe exhibition \u003ci\u003e99 Nude Collages on the Wall, \u003c\/i\u003epresented by Astor Weeks and accompanying this book, stages an installation of all the collages as a singular sprawling wallflower. Individual works will be removed as transactions are made, giving way to a wall of work that progressively dissipates with demand.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003ePublished by Seaton Street Press\u003cbr\u003e2025\u003cbr\u003eEdition of 200\u003cbr\u003eSoftcover\u003cbr\u003e10.75 x 8.25 in\u003cbr\u003e100 pages\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Seaton Street Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50555800584249,"sku":"210000004349","price":49.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0782\/0872\/9145\/files\/1-justine-kurland-99-nudes-on-the-wall-published-b.png?v=1790280495","url":"https:\/\/shop.icp.org\/products\/justine-kurland-99-nude-collages","provider":"International Center of Photography","version":"1.0","type":"link"}