2009
Haunch of Venison, Zurich
Hardcover
122 pages, 2 fold-outs
268 × 204 mm
Jamie Shovlin explores the tension between fact and fiction in the narratives we use to define our identities and share our stories. Questioning the reliability of information and materiality in the digital age, each project proposes new types of storytelling that include unreliable narration, multiple realities and meta-commentary. Shovlin’s work questions the influence of memory and subjectivity in how we construct the stories of our lives and histories.
[Sedition]
The Evening Redness in the West was the culmination of a body of work by Jamie Shovlin – beginning with A Dream Deferred in 2007 – exploring the mythology of post-war America, filtered through pop cultural and art historical references.
The book's covers are a deconstruction of the stars and stripes. combining blue cloth covers blind-embossed with 52 stars with red-and-white-striped head and tail bands.
