ROMY ZANNI & ERICH WEISS

Book presentation
Saturday, April 25, 2 PM
In collaboration with one hundred pages

one hundred pages is an art book publishing house founded by Jakob and Thomas Galler in 2023. In close collaboration with authors and artists, they focus on socio-political content and phenomena of pop culture. The press highlights artistic positions from its milieu that reflect social tensions and global developments with a critical and subversive approach. one hundred pages publishes a serial pocket book series, with each issue strictly 100 pages, printed in black and white, and issued in an edition of 100 copies.

At the Saint-Martin Bookshop, one hundred pages is presenting its publishing programme and introducing two new titles. Seventeen by Romy Zanni (*2009) is a volume built around a conceptually curated visual archive. It brings together film stills depicting seventeen-year-old characters in a fictional context. Zanni regards these images as reflections of her own age. Through her personal selection, she highlights the attitudes and aesthetic codes commonly associated with what is known as Generation Z.

For the Belgian curator and artist Erich Weiss (1966), cinema is an equally vital source of inspiration. In Mirrors Mirrored, he works with a selection of film stills featuring actresses such as Monica Vitti, Hanna Schygulla, and Jean Seberg in films by Michelangelo Antonioni, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, and Jean-Luc Godard. In these scenes, the actresses are shown before mirrors, seated or standing. Weiss mirrors the images once more, layering them with his own texts and reflections. Thus emerges a visual poem that places its protagonists within an endless hall of mirrors.