Erlea Maneros Zabala - The Voice of the Valley (2016-2022)
| Author | Miren Jaio ed. |
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| Publisher | Paraguay Press |
| ISBN | 9782918252801 |
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The Voice of the Valley (2016-2022) is a book by Erlea Maneros Zabala, who was born in the Spanish Basque Country and has been living in California for the last two decades. Conceived along with her exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Basque Country Artium Museoa, in Vitoria-Gasteiz in 2022, the book goes off the trail from a conventional exhibition catalogue. Voices and images dissociate, overlap and interweave, generating an atmosphere rather than offering a survey. An atmosphere, as in a visual, mental, and sonic landscape. The American writer Dodie Bellamy, with whom Erlea Maneros Zabala has been in close conversation during the making of this book contributed to the book with an interview with the artist and a hybrid text written for the occasion, in which Bellamy responds to themes and images in The Voice of the Valley. The writing of Bellamy echoes the slow, persistent way of working of Erlea Maneros Zabala, which is based on an economy of means that takes the everyday, hers and that of her work environment, into account, without shying from the starker realities of our existences.
| 118 p, ills colour & bw, 19 x 26 cm, pb, English |
Paraguay Press
