Sibel Horada — A Fall Artist Book
The Artist Sibel Horada focuses on collective and personal histories with an interest in urban, archaeological and ecological cultures. She investigates memories of erasure with stories that weave together strange, coincidental details. For Horada, memory is not only the act of recollection, but also a process of reproduction and transformation.
The Project "A Fall" responds to the story of a fallen monument in Madrid, where Horada spent a month and a half as an artist in residence at MataderoMadrid. Eight months later, the adventure became a solo exhibition — she digitally reconstructed the missing piece of the fallen monument and recreated it on a 1:1 scale in Istanbul. The exhibition was organised by Daire Gallery, which also published the accompanying artist book.
The Publication The book documented Horada's concept and the making of the project — but it was also an artwork in its own right. Printed copies were layered on top of one another to form the physical installation itself, making the publication inseparable from the exhibition it described. Bound inside the book was a second, smaller book — a book within a book.
My Role I designed the publication in its entirety. The design had to honour the dual nature of the object: a readable account of the work, and a sculptural element of the show itself.
