This artist’s book completes Monica Majoli’s Black Mirror series and acts as a pendant to the suite of paintings and works on paper produced from 2009-2012 and exhibited at L&M Arts in Los Angeles, 2012-2013. This particular series is based on the black mirror panels of Majoli’s bedroom, reflecting the half-images of five lovers from her past (over the timespan of twenty-five years). The book’s photographs are both source material and event. They depict an intimate performance between the artist and her subject as reflected in the dark mirrored surface that the camera captures.
Poet, novelist and cultural critic Wayne Koestenbaum contributed nine texts to the book. His feuilletons or soap operas act as a disorienting, poetic, and freewheeling counterpoint of conjecture to the photographs. The book also examines creating the material for the paintings in an extended interview between Majoli and independent writer and critic Sabrina Tarasoff.
The book is published in collaboration with Air de Paris.

A poster with the transcript of Rainald Goetz’s presentation of the English translation of his novel “Insane” on the occasion of the exhibition opening for the group exhibition “Hölle” in September 2018 at Galerie Buchholz New York.