Re-cover project is an art project that consists in the creation of alternative covers for existing books. There are no pre-set criteria for the choice of books, other than being a reflection of our interests and references, and the featured photographs or snapshots are taken while out and about, only very rarely with a specific title in mind. This lends the process a spontaneous and experimental character that resurfaces in the playfulness of the final work.
This photo was taken in Aveiro in 2008. Jean-François Lyotard was a French philosopher.La Condition postmoderne (The Postmodern Condition, in English) was first published in 1979. "...is postmodernity the pastime of an old man who scrounges in the garbage-heap of finality looking for leftovers, who brandishes unconsciousnesses, lapses, limits, confines, goulags, parataxes, non-senses, or paradoxes, and who turns this into the glory of his novelty, into his promise of change?"
On Love and Barley - Basho This photo was taken in Amsterdam in 2009. Matsuo Basho was a Japanese Haiku poet from the Edo period. On Love and Barley was first published in English in 1985. The poems date from the second half of the 17th century. "Departing spring - birds cry and in the eyes of fish, tears."
Virginia Woolf was an English novelist and essayist.Orlando was first published in 1928. Orlando was adapted to film in 1992. The film was directed by Sally Potter, and stars Tilda Swinton as Orlando. "She had been a gloomy boy, in love with death, ... as boys are; and then she had been amorous and florid; and then she had been sprightly and satirical; and sometimes she had tried prose and sometimes she had tried drama. Yet through all these changes she had remained, she reflected, fundamentally the same. She had the same brooding meditative temper, the same love of animals and nature, the same passion for the country and the seasons."
La Condition Postmoderne - Jean-François Lyotard
