MARTIN, Orion (ed.)
FABOO

Published in September 2023 in conjunction with an eponymous exhibition at High Art, Arles, Orion Martin’s FABOO presents itself as an eccentric magazine-like artists’ book, in which the motifs of his paintings are reframed, cut, edited, and shuffled through the pages. Photographs, texts, and other contributions by a faboolous team ((Zoe Barcza, Alfred Boman, Jesse Clark, Sebastian Clark, Sam Davis, Sebastian Jefford, Elon Katz, Isabelle Frances McGuire, Alexandra Noel, Willy Reed, Tom Roach, Marisa Takai)) come to play with the works. The intensity of Martin’s approach splashes everywhere on the pages: “Martin deftly navigates the conceptual space between narrative and nonsense, conflating objects and images to induce a reverie wherein bodies, symbols, mechanisms and spatial environments contrive to transgress the laws of conventional visual logic. In the absence of clear correlations among such disparate imagery, Martin’s enigmatic compositions invite subjective interpretations that amplify the intrigue of his oeuvre.”

Self-Published, 2023
Design by Orion Martin & Naoki Sutter Shudo
Artists' Books