Purchase

$22.00
Artist book by Naima Green. Commissioned by ICA VCU for I Keep Missing My Water Exhibition curated by Amber Esseiva.
Soft touch cover
Edition of 200
Orders are shipped once a week on Friday via USPS Media Mail.

"To find pleasure. To seek touch. I think about all the ways I learned to live again."

—Naima Green

This exhibition, and all of Green’s work, functions as a living archive. For Green photography isn’t just a means of capture but a gateway into life. In her ongoing online archive Skin Contact, which appears in this exhibition as an interactive installation, Green engages deeply with her sitters, collecting materials that contribute to their quality of life. Poems, playlists, questionnaires, love letters, audio recordings, and the residue of shared meals are made public and archived, enhancing the intimacy evident in Green’s portraits.

• I Keep Missing My Water is curated by Amber Esseiva

• Caroline Washington, Art Direction and Design

• “Motions to Unfurl” by  Ica Sadagat

• “Interstitial / Intertidal: Reflections on Motions to Unfurl” by Angie Sijun Lou

• “Awe & Assurance” by Jessica Lynne

• “Ritual for Autumn Equinox” by Bhanu Kapil

• The intimacy of before stills courtesy of Naima Green & Jessie Levandov

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$69.00

Naima Green, Pur·suit, 2019
Deck of playing cards with 54 photographs in an embossed box
3.5 x 2.5 in (8.9 x 6.4 cm)
Edition of 2,500

"Pur·suit" is a deck of 54 playing cards featuring photographs of queer womxn, trans, non-binary, and gender-nonconforming people. Inspired by Catherine Opie's "Dyke Deck," Green brings a new perspective and vision to an iconic foundational project. Use these cards for games, as guides, for divination, or whatever else you dream up.

Creative Direction – Toby Kaufmann
Graphic Design – Rin Kim
Project Manager – Lorenna Gomez-Sanchez
Set Design – Jessie Levandov
Design Consultant – Caroline Washington
Assistants – Shanique Strodder, Freddie L. Rankin, Arvolyn Hill, Kalila Hoggard
Product Photography – Megan Madden

Orders are shipped once a week on Friday via USPS Priority Mail.