{"title":"Loose Joints","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIndependent publisher and design studio of contemporary books on art and photography. Loose Joints collaborate with leading and emerging artists to explore progressive approaches to artists books, monographs and special editions.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"hoda-afshar-the-fold","title":"Hoda Afshar — The Fold","description":"\u003ch3 class=\"p1\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eThrough critical reappropriation,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eAfshar reclaims a colonial photographic legacy fixated on the veiled woman.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Fold\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a critical visual and psychological investigation into the enduring legacy of Orientalist and colonialist photographic practices, and the ways in which these gazes continue to shape how bodies—particularly veiled Islamic bodies—are seen, archived, and consumed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis new body of work by Iranian artist Hoda Afshar takes as its starting point the vast archive of Gaëtan Gatian de Clérambault (1872–1934), a French psychiatrist and photographer who, in the early 20th century, produced thousands of images of veiled women—and sometimes men—in Morocco. Encountered by Afshar during her research at the musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac in Paris, these photographs were originally used by de Clérambault to support psychoanalytic theories around fantasy, covering, and desire, all filtered through a deeply colonial lens.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor the first time in her practice, Afshar engages directly with an archival body of work. Having discovered that the museum’s online archive automatically cropped de Clérambault's images upon downloading, Afshar furthers this degradation into an embedded commentary. By darkroom printing and digitally manipulating these fragments, she ruptures their original intent and transforms them into a space of resistance. Her interventions turn the gaze back on itself—inviting viewers to question the power dynamics woven into the act of looking, and to confront the cultural biases projected onto the veil.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBorn after the Islamic Revolution in Iran, Afshar came of age in a society where the veil had become a central symbol in the negotiation of political and cultural identity. At the heart of her engagement with the archive is a recognition of how the Islamic female body has long been instrumentalised to serve competing ideologies. While unveiling was used to justify imperial conquest, re-veiling became a symbol of resistance—yet has also been enforced by state authorities for coercive ends. Through the reworking of these colonial images, Afshar navigates this entangled history, forging a third path that critiques both external and internal forms of domination.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis experimental book gathers more than 960 of Afshar’s silver gelatin reappropriations of de Clérambault’s archive, each one a gesture of reworking, refusal, and critical reflection.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Fold\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eincludes essays by Ali Behdad and Annabelle Lacour, a conversation between Taous Dahmani and the artist, and is published to accompany Afshar’s solo exhibition\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eHoda Afshar. Performer l'invisible\u003c\/em\u003e, at the musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac (30\/9\/2025 – 25\/1\/2026).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eHoda Afshar (b. 1983, Iran) is an Iranian-born, Melbourne-based artist working across photography, moving image, and installation. She explores themes of violence, marginality, displacement, and representation. In 2023, she held a major institutional survey, \u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003eA Curve is a Broken Line\u003c\/span\u003e, at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, which was accompanied by a publication. Her work has been widely exhibited including in: \u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003eShow it, Grow it!\u003c\/span\u003e, Museum Folkwang, Essen (2024), \u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003eNGV Triennial\u003c\/span\u003e, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne (2023), \u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003eThinking Historically in the Present\u003c\/span\u003e, Sharjah Biennial 15, Sharjah (2023); \u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003eSTILL ALIVE\u003c\/span\u003e, Aichi Triennial, Nagoya (2022); and \u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003eBetween the Sun and the Moon\u003c\/span\u003e, Lahore Biennale, Lahore (2020). 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Working instinctively, Youkilis's short, immersive videos gather universal themes of human experience, using the casual language of the cameraphone to evoke something profound, anthropological, comprehensive and yet incomplete. Youkilis’s work springs from an attitude, a way of experiencing the world, that contains depth beyond the o\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eff\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ehand ease in which his images freely circulate.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn Youkilis’s first publication, the depth of this engagement with human patterns of behaviour is archived and scattered across a diverse range of themes, divided into chapters that playfully tease the tensions between categorisation and chance that inform his observational works. Made exclusively of video stills, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eSomewhere\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003escours Youkilis’s database for images of everything from the time of day–7:07AM, 12:33PM—to unmade beds, the act of cutting, thresholds, dancing couples and gestures of romance.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePresented as a dense 500-page sequence, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eSomewhere\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003eactivates the archive and the typology as a source of human joy and communion while emboldening his subjects and unlocking the deep essence of di\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eff\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eerent places worldwide. 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Over the past fifteen years, Arnold has become a cult figure in the city’s visual culture, known for his raw, humanistic encounters with its citizens and for collaborations spanning from the Safdie brothers to the Met Gala and beyond.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRooted in a well-trodden lineage of New York street photography, Arnold’s work channels the chaos, chutzpah, humour and vitality that define the city, yet \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eYou Are What You Do\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e reveals something more: a tenderness and empathy that courses through every frame. There are genuine moments of sadness and grief mixed with joy, alongside spontaneous, unscripted scenes of pure street cinema, blended with candid images from fashion shoots and film sets, all sitting effortlessly within Arnold’s generous visual language.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWorking from a vast archive, this generous landscape-format monograph distills Arnold’s signature wry, tragicomic style into a spacious and classical book object. From the glamorous heights of high culture to the downtrodden and overlooked, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eYou Are What You Do\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e draws a wide, empathetic circle around New York’s characters and charm.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eDaniel Arnold (b. 1980, USA) is a photographer whose candid, street-level images capture the unfiltered rhythms of urban life. 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