Guestbook

'Shapton has created a mystical territory - a performance, an exhibition, a guestbook - in which I felt the ghost within myself; the thing that will outlive me. A fearless and exquisite book' Miranda July

Guestbook explores the glimmering, unsettling things that haunt us in the midst of life, combining stories, vignettes and an evocative curiosity cabinet of artifacts and images - found photographs, original paintings, Instagram-style portraits - to transform the traditional ghost story into something else entirely.

'Leanne Shapton has a way of making books entirely new, surreal, and uncanny ... Guestbook contains ghost stories for a world of images and captions, in which the ghosts are all of us, and our strange time' Sheila Heti, author of How Should a Person Be?

,,Shapton a creat un teritoriu mistic - un spectacol, o expozitie, o carte de oaspeti - in care am simtit fantoma din mine; lucrul care imi va supravietui. O carte neinfricata si rafinata' Miranda JulyGuestbook exploreaza lucrurile stralucitoare, tulburatoare care ne bantuie in mijlocul vietii, combinand povesti, viniete si un cabinet de curiozitate evocator de artefacte si imagini - fotografii gasite, picturi originale, portrete in stil Instagram - pentru a transforma povestea traditionala cu fantome in cu totul altceva." Leanne Shapton are un mod de a face carti cu totul noi, suprareale si ciudate...