Mom's Magnets
Year
2020
Type
Project
Title
Mom's Magnets
Categories
Book
Location
Medium
Self-published risograph book, 5.85 x 8.25 in
Self-published risograph book
Printed by Witti Studio, Bangkok, Thailand
Featured at Bangkok Art Book Fair 2020
Edition of 100
Mom’s Magnets is Leerasanthanah’s typological documentation of their mother’s collection of magnets from worldly destinations. The souvenir magnet is exemplary of reducing culture, place, people, heritage, and politics to commodified kitsch. Patterns reveal the homogenous representations of marketable icons. Playful juxtapositions force a relationship between two seemingly unrelated symbols, like the Egyptian hieroglyph tablet and Britain’s telephone booth. The book contemplates the attempt to embody and possess place and time.
Self-published risograph book
Printed by Witti Studio, Bangkok, Thailand
Featured at Bangkok Art Book Fair 2020
Edition of 100
Mom’s Magnets is Leerasanthanah’s typological documentation of their mother’s collection of magnets from worldly destinations. The souvenir magnet is exemplary of reducing culture, place, people, heritage, and politics to commodified kitsch. Patterns reveal the homogenous representations of marketable icons. Playful juxtapositions force a relationship between two seemingly unrelated symbols, like the Egyptian hieroglyph tablet and Britain’s telephone booth. The book contemplates the attempt to embody and possess place and time.
Self-published risograph book
Printed by Witti Studio, Bangkok, Thailand
Featured at Bangkok Art Book Fair 2020
Edition of 100
Mom’s Magnets is Leerasanthanah’s typological documentation of their mother’s collection of magnets from worldly destinations. The souvenir magnet is exemplary of reducing culture, place, people, heritage, and politics to commodified kitsch. Patterns reveal the homogenous representations of marketable icons. Playful juxtapositions force a relationship between two seemingly unrelated symbols, like the Egyptian hieroglyph tablet and Britain’s telephone booth. The book contemplates the attempt to embody and possess place and time.
Self-published risograph book
Printed by Witti Studio, Bangkok, Thailand
Featured at Bangkok Art Book Fair 2020
Edition of 100
Mom’s Magnets is Leerasanthanah’s typological documentation of their mother’s collection of magnets from worldly destinations. The souvenir magnet is exemplary of reducing culture, place, people, heritage, and politics to commodified kitsch. Patterns reveal the homogenous representations of marketable icons. Playful juxtapositions force a relationship between two seemingly unrelated symbols, like the Egyptian hieroglyph tablet and Britain’s telephone booth. The book contemplates the attempt to embody and possess place and time.