Wimper: Alex Farrar

Nicolas de Oliveira, Nicola Oxley, David Price
Mulberry Tree Press, London, 2019
Design by studio Hendriksen
risograph printed by the artist in studio Hendriksen
160 pages
Edition of 300 copies
ISBN: 978-1-9160949-1-8

The book Wimper (the Dutch term for eyelash, or a potential misspelling of the English for ‘whimper’) is an extension of an exhibition, which may be experienced in its own right, after the space has been vacated. It operates on the limits of material evidence by reprising a series of earlier prints entitled Behavioural Residues (second sweep), featuring barely perceptible images of single eyelashes spread throughout the texts and pages. Apart from their significance as intimate materials discarded by the body over time, such as hair or skin, they submit to the almost nothing of an aesthetics of disappearance, while lingering in a dialectics of misunderstanding that commits to a lack of closure.’ It features writing by the exhibition curators Nicolas de Oliveira and Nicola Oxley, and a text by David Price.