Apophenia Volume 02: Exquisite Corpse by Julie Wolfe

In this sequel to her 2023 "Apophenia," Julie Wolfe homes in on modes of seduction, often in relation to personal identity. Drawing on conventional images of beauty - fashionable Western women, high classical art, exquisite botanicals, luxe objects - she simulates the visual excess of the beau ideal that surrounds us every day. 

What kind of perfection, what desired reality, do we strive for given the seemingly incidental but wholly deliberate images filtering through our world for constant consumption?

Wolfe cuts through this noise with her layered gestures, slicing images and recombining them, or adding shadows or gloriously garish colors, creating surprising aberrations from accepted or established forms. Her art awakens our imagination and coaxes us toward deeper emotional and unbounded ways of seeing.

• 10" x 13"
• Page count, 236 pages. 
• Double cover with three cover designs. Cover image is variable; you may receive a book cover that looks different from what is shown.