First edition ofAnd In Its Place, Another byKovi Konowiecki (2021)
First impression
In an edition of 750 copies
Large format hardback in new condition
Signed byKovi Konowiecki to copyright page
Comes with a dust jacket
Published by Deadbeat Club
About
As the title of Kovi Konowieckis debut monograph and in its place, another reminds us, we are always and forever subject to the twin certitudes of transience and change. As is the artist, who has moved back and forth between California, Mexico, Europe, and the Middle East, all of which places are part of the fabric of this sprawling, unscripted book.
Here we are confronted with the geographical and emotional margins of society and the mind: the external and internal boundaries that inhibit both human movement and human potential. The photographs portray individuals and communities that exist in a liminal space between belonging and abandonment, many of which exert feelings of desolation.
But what might seem on the surface political is made intensely personal through Konowieckis purposeful reliance on emotional connections in the pictures rather than specific relationships of place or subject. As he says, this work comes as a happy accident, inspired by the frequent travels that nourished a sharp eye for the liminal types of communities to which I am drawn: people I have met in my wanderings, passersby in the street, a horse trained in a small Arab village, and untended gardens.
