Of

Of (2012) was written and edited by Peter Maybury and Tom dePaor, funded by the Irish Architecture Foundation, and published by our Gall Editions imprint. I designed and produced the book and was principal photographer. The book is a softcover demi-octavo format, printed throughout with black text and duotone image reproductions. Organised into a colophon and 25 essays after Francis Bacon, Of is a meta-book – a book about a book – while also a book which reflects on its own making. It refers to the exhibition in Venice – as reader and intertext – dismantling the conceits and constructs of the exhibition, and of the book itself. Using elements of the exhibition’s mechanisms as prompt, issues of archive, copy, exhibition and distribution, presentation, representation, fact, truth, verisimilitude, authorship and authority are considered both through the text, and through the form and presentation of the book itself.