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128 pages, 31.7 x 24cm, coptic bind, softcover
Perimeter Editions 076
ISBN: 978-1-922545-10-7
AU $59 | $220

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Izabela Pluta
Nihilartikel

The German term nihilartikel is used to describe the little known practice of inserting intentional errors, falsities or fictitious entries into reference texts – academic works, dictionaries, encyclopedias, maps, directories – for the purpose of later identifying plagiaries, copies or other infringements to intellectual copyright. Taking this somewhat elusive practice as its subtext, Izabela Pluta’s major new book approaches photography and its central quandaries of authenticity and representation from a series of unsettled and dynamic vantages.

Here, the Polish-born, Australian-based artist forges a syntax using photographs gleaned from aerial drone footage and moving-image stills filmed underwater in Malta and Japan, and traditional darkroom prints made with out-of-print and otherwise obscure oceanic maps. Ancient surfaces and architectures ripple with evidence of their deep time; boulders emerge, stealth-like, from the blue depths; cartography collapses in on itself; all in a sequence punctuated by vibrant interplays of colour, layer, texture and form.

Working in fluid collaboration with designers Paul Mylecharane and Kim Mumm Hansen, Pluta depicts the ocean and its surrounding landscapes as a fallible and contested space. Official accounts are called into question, and expanded photographic materialities, juxtapositions and graphic formalism work to fragment established systems of knowledge. Pluta’s conceptual pith lies in the exploration, repetitions, red herrings and residues. Nihilartikel – which follows the artist’s 2019 book for Perimeter Editions, Figures of slippage and oscillation – echoes the volatility and relationality of our experience of the ocean itself, posing the question of how we can work to unravel the dogmas of conventional modes of looking, making and reading photographs. Here, Pluta dares us to lose ourselves in the undertow.


128 pages, 31.7 x 24cm, coptic bind, softcover
Perimeter Editions 076
First edition of 700
ISBN 978-1-922545-10-7
Publication date: July 2022
Printed by Agpograf, Spain
Published by Perimeter Editions, Melbourne
Essay: Ramona Heinlein
Editors: Justine Ellis and Dan Rule
Design: Paul Mylecharane and Kim Mumm Hansen at Public Office
Translation: Kathrin Heinrich
Copy Editor: Lisa Girult (English), Annegret Liepold (German)
Editorial assistance: Ash HolmesIzabela Pluta (b. 1979, Warsaw, Poland) migrated to Australia in 1987. She lives and works between the lands of the Awabakal and Worimi in Awabakal country (Newcastle, NSW) and the lands of the Bidjigal and Gadigal (Paddington, Sydney). Pluta completed her Master of Fine Art at The University of New South Wales, and she went on to complete her PhD in the Faculty of Creative Arts, The University of Wollongong, in 2017. Her studio practice embraces photography as a way of interpreting and re-conceptualising the function that images have in the present. Recent major exhibitions include From impulse to action, which commissioned Pluta’s major work, Counter forces, for Bundanon Art Museum; Nihilartikel at UNSW Galleries, Sydney; Blue Assembly: Oceanic Thinking at UQ Art Museum, and Radical Slowness at The Lock-Up, Newcastle. Pluta’s first European solo exhibition, Variable depth, shallow water, was staged in 2021 at Spazju Kreattiv, Malta’s National Centre for Creativity in Valetta. In 2019, Pluta was commissioned to create a significant new work, Apparent distance, by the Art Gallery of New South Wales for The National 2019: New Australian Art. In 2018, Pluta was the inaugural artist for the Marrgu Residency at Durrmu Arts Aboriginal Corporation in Peppimenarti. In the same year, she presented a project in collaboration with Other Architects in Form N-X00 as part of the US Pavilion at the Biennale Architettura, Venice. Pluta has undertaken national residencies including at International Art Space (IASKA) Kellerberrin, as well as International residencies in Tokyo, Barcelona, Paris, Belfast and Beijing. She lectures in art at UNSW Arts, Design & Architecture in Sydney, and is represented by Gallery Sally Dan-Cuthbert, Sydney.

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Special Edition

Perimeter Editions and the artist are producing a special edition of 30 copies, which include a signed and editioned chromogenic print.

Fallout #1 (Study for 'Variable depth, shallow water'), 2021
Chromogenic print on metallic paper, 20 x 28 cm

AU $220

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