"That’s why I like doing stuff better on the street, because the art becomes just one of the objects that’s in the path of your everyday existence. It’s what you move through, and it doesn’t have any seniority over anything else." — David Hammons
Made exclusively for Claire de Rouen, this limited edition publication by Kwamé Sorrell (of BlackMass Publishing) presents fifteen works by legendary American artist David Hammons. The edition size is also 15, and each copy is accompanied by a single photograph of one of the works, meaning that each copy is unique.
The book includes an essay by Hammons and is a simple A5, staple-bound object. An object of modest format, but strong power.
Founded by Yusuf Hassan in 2019, BlackMass Publishing is a New York-based collective and independent press promoting and publishing material by Black Artists. BlackMass Publishing is interested in facilitating conversation while fostering community through visual language; focusing on Blackness, its effects and affects through representations in images and text.
BlackMass have publications included in the permanent book collections of the Schomburg for Research in black culture Harlem (New York), RAW Material Company (Dakar), The Center For Book Arts (New York), The Watson Library at The MET, The New York Public Library, The New York Langston Hughes Library, and The Evergreen State College.
