Flowers In Hotel Rooms Volume V, 2016
Sarah Bodman, Bristol, UK
A limited edition artist’s book inspired by the 'Angel of Bremen’, Gesche Gottfried, considered a model citizen by the public but who actually murdered fifteen people by lacing their food with arsenic.
Produced to resemble the type of pamphlet publication / recipe book given away with newly purchased gas cookers in the 1940s–50s. It contains 14 'recipes' for 15 people. Each of the dishes was cooked and photographed by the artist in the same sequence that the original dishes were prepared. GIFT in the English language means a present, it is also the German word for poison.
214mm x 148mm x 5mm. 32pp, 17 black and white images, saddled stitched, offset lithography printed on Cyclus Print 100% recycled. Signed and numbered in an edition of 500 by Axminster Printing Company, Axminster, UK, June 2016.
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