Double/Double: Nuno Sousa Vieira

Nicolas de Oliveira, Nicola Oxley, Nuno Sousa Vieira
Mulberry Tree Press, London, 2025
Design by the artist & Flavio Pacino
Printed by Blink Eye
58 pages
Edition of 300 copies
ISBN: 978-0-9568343-9-3

The work of Nuno Sousa Vieira draws an analogy between architecture and the human body. Its elements – walls, doors, window frames, chairs, heaters, lights and so on – outline the most prosaic functions of the urban environment layered with physical use. He states: ‘I was not interested in the representation of architecture, but in architecture as a physical experience. I was interested in the physicality, the presence, the approach, and the distance that the viewer has in relation to objects and works in the space, and how they articulate with each other within the exhibition space.’ The publication takes the form of a limited edition book that includes an intervention by Sousa Vieira in which he tears and reassembles the pages made possible by using glue-less Japanese stab binding.